Announcement: Change in the Newsletter Delivery

According to the website E-Zine Check, some mailing services tag messages as junk mail by scanning them for "trigger words." That means the more trigger words present the greater the possibility that the newsletter will enter a bulk mail folder.

I tested the latest newsletter (for December 14, 2004) using the E-Zine Check system and received the following results:

"Here are the results of the EzineCheck on your newsletter copy. The following table shows you which words, phrases and other problems triggered spam penalties, and the number of penalty points awarded:

form 0.105 points
form 0.105 points
form 0.105 points
galleries 1 points
here 0.312 points
here 0.312 points
here 0.312 points
lifetime 1.836 points
millions 0.435 points
never 1.211 points
now 0.402 points
now 0.402 points
now 0.402 points
questions 0.212 points
questions 0.212 points
secret 0.523 points
secret 0.523 points
university 1.204 points

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Total Points 9.613

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"Analysis: Very risky. You would be lucky to get this past a spam filter."

To avoid this problem, I have decided to remove the abstracts and simply post the link to the news page with any short announcements.