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Help. SpamAssissin flagging FILL_THIS_FORM_LONG when there is no form.

by Michele Hsu

Has anyone had the experience of running a spam check against an email newsletter and getting FILL_THIS_FORM_LONG flag from SpamAssissin? It seems to think there is a form asking for personal information in the email, when there isn't,

I am using mail-tester.com which runs the email against SpamAssissin.

Usually I get a 45% open rate, and this time I only got 18%. I suspect the email got flagged but I have no idea what is causing it.

Thanks for any insight.

Michele Hsu's avatarMichele Hsu
on February 17, 2021
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    Oh my goodness. Mystery solved! Call off the dogs. SpamAssissin thinks I am asking for age, income, education level, etc. because I list those as examples of how marketers segment customers.

    The email newsletter has an article about customer segmentation, and about the classic ways in which marketers segment.

    Here is the text from the email that is being mistaken as asking for personal information:

    There are 5 traditional ways to segment your customers:

    • Demographics: age, income, education level, gender identity, occupation, marital status, home ownership, parental status.
    • Business Characteristics: industry, business size, title, geographic location. Recency,
    • Frequency, Monetary (RFM): purchase history of last time, how often, and how much.
    • Customer Behavior: active, types of products purchased, website activity, support requests, lead source.
    • Psychographic: attitudes, hobbies.
    Michele Hsu's avatar Michele Hsu
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      Hah, this is out of my expertise, but I'm glad the mystery was solved!

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      6 years ago
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