[il-talk] AT&T users may want to turn off your Spam Guard.

[Connie J. Davis]

Bill, I have had the same issues.  I always check to see.
Connie 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Reif 
  To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:34 AM
  Subject: [il-talk] AT&T users may want to turn off your Spam Guard.


  I recommend that anyone with AT&T consider turning off their ISP's spam 
  filter.  A few weeks ago, I helped someone move nearly 400 messages from 
  their AT&T Spam folder, representing the messages he didn't receive in the 
  previous month.  (Messages he received before that were deleted without 
  being made available to him.)  TI thought I had configured filters to allow 
  all messages from NFBNET.ORG to pass to my inbox; so I was surprised to find 
  my own box filled with NFBNet or Googlegroup list messages AT&T regarded as 
  spam.  Those of us who use email clients such as Outlook or Outlook Express 
  would have no ideawe weren't getting them; and I suspect some on this list 
  don't even know they have a yahoo.com spam folder.

  To turn it off, you will need to first log into mail.yahoo.com, your web 
  e-mail interface, using your e-mail address and password.  If you use a 
  screenreader, you will want to switch to Mail Classic, since Yahoo! Mail is 
  not supported.  Go to Mail Settings, and look for the link that will let you 
  toggle the status of Spam Guard.  After you've turned it off, you may want 
  to visit your spam folder by visiting its link, checking the box for each 
  message you want to keep, selecting the "move to" button, and moving them to 
  your in box.  If your experience is like Dave's or mine, you will discover 
  that over 80 percent  of what's there isn't spam.  AT&T's mail incryption 
  and built-in virus removal tools still block much of the worst spam.  I'd 
  rather put up with the bother of deleting the easily-identifyable 20 percent 
  than miss messages that may be important.

  Bill

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Connie Davis" <condav8950 at att.net>
  To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [il-talk] here we go again


  I GOT BOTH OF THEM, BUT DIDN'T GET THE LAST ONE. JOE, I'M BEGINNING TO 
  WONDER IF YOU AND I HAVE SOME ISSUES WITH AT&T.
  Connie Davis




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  From: Kelly Doty <kelly at dls.net>
  To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:54:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [il-talk] here we go again

  Hi, Joe. I got them both.

  Kelly
  ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOSEPH MONTI" <jlmonti at sbcglobal.net>
  To: <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:58 PM
  Subject: [il-talk] here we go again


  > i just sent 2 messages out on il-talk bout gift cards.
  > the second message which was a p.s. came almost instantly to my spam 
  > folder. i still haven't received the first message.
  > does anyone know what's going on?
  > joe
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