On Saturday 06 October 2018 09:39:48 E. Liddell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:03:43 -0700 > > William Morder <doctor_contendo@...> wrote: > > Also, as I've pointed out before, the enigmatic Liddell (with two Ls, as > > in Alice-in-Wonderland Liddell, as in Liddell & Scott), might not be a > > "he" at all, as I've never noticed any clues about gender; indeed, our > > E.Liddell could be a Chesire cat with opposable thumbs. The E maybe > > stands for Euphonious, a good cat name; or perhaps is an allusion to the > > letter E at Delphi? > > Alas, I have been found out! I'm actually an advanced android in the > form of a cat, who was ditched in the street after the world conquest > plans of the scientist who created me failed to pan out. And who needs > opposable thumbs, anyway? Get the right kind of keyboard, and you > can type with your tail. Unlike flesh-and-blood cats, I don't even need > minions to open cans for me. ;) > I knew it was a cat! > (It's much more amusing to see to see what theories people come up with > about me than to tell the bland and boring truth.) > Definitely a male cat. Needs to be neutered. > > My own guess is that he might use the same address for something else > > besides our mailing list, or that his name or address is similar enough > > to an actual spammer, and gets him marked as spam because he got on some > > master list used by Google, Zoho and others. Or something like that. > > This is a fairly old email account (from the gmail semi-closed beta days) > that I use mostly for lists. I can think of several reasons why Google > might be uncomfortable with it, but if I had to guess, they're just ticked > off that I've figured out how to avoid seeing their ads even if logged in > through the website (and I can't remember the last time I even did that). > Or it's the DKIM thing again. > > I should probably switch this list over to my non-gmail account, but I'm > suffering from a chronic shortage of round tuits. > > E. Liddell > The longer one has an email account, I think, the more spam it attracts, and the more likely it is to get put on somebody's list. Bill