[pp.int.general] ACTA and European parliament Spam filter

[Gregory Engels]

Thank you Mattias, 

the "rumors" are based on a press article in the german TAZ
http://www.taz.de/Widerstand-gegen-Acta-im-EU-Parlament/!87703/

that state in the last paragraph that 
"MEPs have received thousands of emails from ACTA opponents.
But now it is over: the administration of the EU Parliament has decided 
to automatically move all ACTA-mails to a spam folder". 

It just sad, that all the media have copy/pasted this clam without research. 


Gregory Engels
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On 15.02.2012, at 14:37, <mattias.bjarnemalm at piratpartiet.se> wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> It has come to our attention via twitter that there seems to be some
> rumors that the European parliament automatically sends Acta related mails
> to the spam bin. As me and Amelia is on the inside she suggested that I'd
> let you all know that this is not true.
> 
> The mail that get sent to the MEPs are handled in microsoft outlook and
> the control over the spam filter in outloook is entirely in the hand of the
> individual MEP. The default setting for the spam filter is "low" and in
> that setting roughly somewhat less than 10% of the acta related emails that
> was sent to Amelias account got sent to the spam bin. Those mails were all
> identical and sent more or les at the same time which i probably why the
> spam filter reacted. 
> 
> So, to sum it up: with the default settings a tiny minority of the
> acta-related emails got sent to the spam bin. The control of the spam
> filter is in the hand of the individual MEP. If you take the time to
> actually write the email yourself and adressing the individual MEP instead
> of mass sending emails to all MEPs at the same time your email do not risk
> being stuck in the spam filter at all regardless of the topic. 
> 
> Feel free to spread this information to anywone who've expressed concerns
> regarding the spam filters in the parliament.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Mab
> 
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