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   Tegger to All   
   "ADV:" being wrongly added to email Subj   
   11 Aug 12 11:11:40   
   
   From: invalid@example.com   
      
   We're with an ISP that uses Positini for spam filtering. It generally works   
   well, but one thing I'm discovering is that somebody is adding "ADV:" to   
   the Subject lines of the odd message here and there, which is triggering a   
   global "spam" rule, and the messages are being trapped in the Quarantine.   
      
   But, once we spring the messages from the Quarantine, the message is   
   delivered with the "ADV:" stripped off.   
      
   The senders are swearing up and down that they are not the ones adding   
   "ADV:" to the Subject line themselves, and I believe them. Their messages   
   and Subject lines are otherwise not spammish in character, and I can see no   
   reason why these messages would get flagged.   
      
   Is it providers  other than ours that are adding the "ADV:" string before   
   the message leaves their network for ours? If so, how can we prevent this   
   from happening?   
      
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   P.S.: A followup to the sale of my Website: It never happened, as the buyer   
   deemed traffic and ad revenue not worth buying it. However, he has put   
   Google ads up on the site, and is splitting half the revenues with me.   
      
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