John told me about this, and I looked, and found a couple of names I *know* I'd never added, but recognized as people I've seen on some mailing lists. In my case they were all on the 'add' side, so I wasn't blocking anyone. But it does sound like ATS needs to issue a general alert here and let folks know about this. --STeve Andre' On Thursday 19 August 2010 17:54:22 John Valenti wrote: > Respectfully, I think however this was implemented was seriously broken, > and a broadcast message needs to go out to all users. (unless you have some > way of fixing it programmatically). > > I've communicated with two other competent campus sysadmins, and we are all > seeing weird stuff in the block list. In my case, there are two individual > addresses in the block list that I never communicated with before last > month. I sent and/or received one or two messages from them, and now I find > that they are blocked. I took no action (on my Mac mail client) that should > have marked them as blocked, and have never dug into the web interface far > enough to see these screens (which are think are new in the last several > weeks). > > -John > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Leo Sell wrote: > > At 12:57 PM -0400 8/19/10, John Valenti wrote: > >> hi, > >> One of our staff just called to say that professor's emails were ending > >> up in Trash folder (marked as spam). > > > > Actually, looking again at this, the operative processing in this case is > > likely the Spam processing settings. The professor in question probably > > has "Discard Spam" selected, whether recollected or not. > > > > > > -- > > Leo Sell > > ATS Help Desk > > Michigan State University > > 517-432-6200 > > help.msu.edu