http://blog.mailchimp.com/lorem-ipsum-dummy-text-gets-spam-filtered/ MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.mailchimp.com/lorem-ipsum-dummy-text-gets-spam-filtered/#comment-28 Alan Underwood Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:09:24 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/2006/01/16/lorem-ipsum-dummy-text-gets-spam-filtered/#comment-28 Probably that's because Thunderbird uses a filtering method called "Bayesian" filtering. Without going into the details of it, the filter checks the words in your message against the words in your inbox. If there are many in common, it is not junk and if there are few in common, it is. Thus, since you never receive emails with the words "lorem", "ipsum", or "dolor" in them, the message was marked as spam. Any mail client that uses this method of filtering will likely have similar problems for similar reasons. Probably that’s because Thunderbird uses a filtering method called “Bayesian” filtering. Without going into the details of it, the filter checks the words in your message against the words in your inbox. If there are many in common, it is not junk and if there are few in common, it is. Thus, since you never receive emails with the words “lorem”, “ipsum”, or “dolor” in them, the message was marked as spam. Any mail client that uses this method of filtering will likely have similar problems for similar reasons.

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