Getting around the spam filters

As Paul McNamara has chronicled, over-eager spam filters on some mail systems now dropkick legitimate e-mail that happens to contain the words or phrases the filter thinks signal spam. The result is a growing headache for people who put out newsletters on certain topics, such as, oh, networking.

Anne Holland, the editor of ContentBiz, which puts out newsletters on putting out newsletters writes about an experiment in avoiding the problem:

Last week we started adding "typos" to commonly filtered words in our issues -- such as s^pam and f^ree -- but it's turned out to be tougher than you might think just because training yourself to spell that way and remembering to check for it when proofing isn't second nature yet. So now I guess I have to ask our writers and editors to add auto-change to Word so when they use the correct spelling, it uncorrects it for publication.

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