Are some o'who? minions surreptitiously blocking conservative email by manipulating spam filters?

related: Spam info at http://harrold.org/rfhextra/spam.html

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Could some net-savy politicos be quietly manipulating how we communicate? (Yeah, I know it's spelled savvy which looks funny to me ...sort'a like a W in the middle.)

The email addresses below have not, in the past, been blocked by my email filter program, Spamfighter. It's a peer-2-peer (P2P) operation with which people can block email coming in to their PCs. Via Spamfighter, their 'block' action is reported email-by-email back to Spamfighter which in turn uses other persons' blocking/unblocking actions aggregated together with some ...dunno how, algorithm that then blocks/unblocks all other Spamfighter users' incoming emails based on the P2P/algorithm results. It's pretty effective, eliminating around 95+% of my incoming junk mail. Legitimate email is rarely blocked; however, in the last 2 or 3 weeks or so, I've noticed that "MoveOn.org", the ACLU and other o'who? & WH connected emails are being received OK (I have no problem receiving them.) but now some of the conservative email sources' emails that I normally receive are now being blocked. Spamfighter allows me to "unblock" and automatically report my unblocking back to the Spamfighter host for my action to be aggregated together with others who use Spamfighter. Which I've done. I doubt that this (...my anecdotal observation only...) is unique to Spamfighter.

Has anyone else, who's using an email spam filter noticed a similar, albeit minor, shifting in filtering results?

These are the latest email sources that I've noticed in these last 2-3 weeks that are now being auto-blocked, but which in the past were not selected for blocking by me nor by Spamfighter's auto-filtering:

• Focus on the Family ..@family-mail.org
• Senator John Cornyn johncornyn@gopsenators.com & ../gopsenators.com
• Gun Alerts info@gunalerts.com CCRKBA (Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms)
• LifeNews.com
• Conservative Alerts info@conservativealert.com RightMarch.com
• California Republican Party crpcalendar@cagop.org
and
• NumbersUSA immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com

Periodically, I check my 'spamfighter spam folder' and re-whitelist the email addresses for these sites, un-block the currently filtered-out ones, and move them into my normal in-box. Usually, for several days, new incoming emails from them remain un-blocked OK ..then they begin to again be blocked. 'Dunno if I'm 'tilting windmills' but for what it's worth, if you use an email spam-filter program, please see if you observe anything similar. I'm forwarding this email to Spamfighter for comment back from them and to y'all for whatever you think it's worth. (I in no way shape or form suspect in the slightest that Spamfighter is in anyway complicit in any email chicanery.) Me, I'm suspicious that someone or some devious organization might be quietly "stacking the deck", 'so-to-speak.'

Sincerely, "Don Quixote" Harrold

P.S. This could be a double-edged sword working both ways. Not just anti-con.
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