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W4GPL
10-15-2012, 10:27 AM
Hey guys and gals!

I pay extra for a reliable e-mail delivery service, I do this to guarantee everyone who uses our servers gets their e-mail from the forums & other applications as expected. However, a small percentage of you are marking these e-mails as "spam" in your Gmail/Hotmail/etc accounts and it's causing me a lot of heart burn as I have to explain to the e-mail provider how and why this isn't spam.. each time! :)

If do not want to receive e-mails from us, it's a simple configuration option under the 'Settings' link in the upper right hand corner of the forum. Please use this option before reporting us as spam! We did not send you these e-mails unsolicited. If you have any questions, please ask them via PM or in this thread.

Thank you for your cooperation! :)
PA5COR
10-15-2012, 10:46 AM
I have never marked any mail from here as spam, just deleting it after reading the content.
Come on guy's 'n gals make life a bit easier for the staff... ;)
N2CHX
10-15-2012, 11:52 AM
My email is through my own website and I always get them, would never think of marking them as spam. WTF?
KJ3N
10-15-2012, 04:46 PM
I'm fairly sure I turned off all the email shit from here a long time ago. :dunno:
kf0rt
10-15-2012, 04:57 PM
I'm fairly sure I turned off all the email shit from here a long time ago. :dunno:


Mine goes to a private Comcast account that I never read. :rofl:

(The Island is like that... If you want.)
W4RLR
10-15-2012, 05:12 PM
My email is through my own website and I always get them, would never think of marking them as spam. WTF?Ditto. I have my own leased server space in Colorado so I don't have to deal with the freebie mail service providers.
W4GPL
10-15-2012, 05:14 PM
Almost all the IP ranges with major colocation/dedicated rentals like Rackspace, Softlayer, and even Awazon are on all sorts of blacklists & greylists. For example, it's nearly impossible to deliver e-mail directly from a Softlayer server (any server) to a bellsouth.net e-mail account. Hence why I use Sendgrid..
kf0rt
10-15-2012, 05:17 PM
There must be some part of this that works. I don't get nearly the spam I used to.
VE7DCW
10-15-2012, 05:32 PM
All Island e-mail notifications (i.e. private message notification to my ISP e-mail addy) is always received and never marked as spam.I'm actually quite happy the system works! ......although my ISP (Shaw Cable) has been put on a couple of banned lists as a source of spam making delivery of any e-mail I send to certain domains quite difficult! :irked:
KG4CGC
10-15-2012, 05:36 PM
Don't look at me (n)either.
K7SGJ
10-15-2012, 05:50 PM
Not me either. Mine is auto-forwarded to the shredder.
W4GPL
10-15-2012, 05:53 PM
:lol: I know who does it, they're e-mail address is in the spam report.. but I'm just calling them out publicly because I was irritated this morning. ;)
W2NAP
10-16-2012, 03:49 PM
i rarely ever get email from this place. think the only time i do get email from here is when someone sends a pm
W4GPL
10-16-2012, 03:53 PM
That's correct.. a PM or a subscription notice.. that's it. Not spam. :) Self requested, by the way.. we don't force e-mails on anyone.

Only the admins have access to your e-mail address, and we certainly don't abuse that. For anyone to say we're generating spam is simply wrong.

I'm over it, I was peeved yesterday morning.. no particular harm done. Just a reminder that marking e-mails as 'spam' does have consequences. :)
KC2UGV
10-16-2012, 04:26 PM
GMail automarks emails as spam if you often don't read them, and just delete them. I noted GMail doing that with some other mailing lists I'm on as well.
W4GPL
10-16-2012, 04:37 PM
Yes, but I don't think that turns into a DKIM based report.. physically clicking "this is spam" is a different scenario.
NQ6U
10-16-2012, 04:39 PM
Greetings from Nigeria...
W4GPL
10-16-2012, 04:46 PM
Greetings from Nigeria...Where and how should I send my account numbers?
K7SGJ
10-16-2012, 07:41 PM
Greetings from Nigeria...

I think I just got an email from you. Aren't I that one that won 10 mil and I just need to send you 5 thou to hold it for me? Checks in the mail..................
VE7DCW
10-16-2012, 09:20 PM
I think I just got an email from you. Aren't I that one that won 10 mil and I just need to send you 5 thou to hold it for me? Checks in the mail..................

No..... I thought it was that e-mail from the daughter of Joshua Nkomo who after the failed coup in Zimbabwa needs your help in removing 10 million U.S. dollars to a safe bank account in North America.And seeing your name was given in complete confidence by a very trusting person....she was willing to give you twenty five percent (25%) of the sum to help with the relocation and transaction of funds!! Wow!! ..... what a deal!! :stupid:
N7YA
10-17-2012, 06:04 PM
I didnt even know i could get this sent to me...i would just rather come to the site and increase the hit count.
KB3LAZ
10-18-2012, 04:28 PM
I have not checked my email in erm..I cant even remember. :P
W2NAP
10-18-2012, 05:52 PM
I have not checked my email in erm..I cant even remember. :P

you could be missing your chance to claim several million dollars
KB3LAZ
10-23-2012, 10:45 AM
you could be missing your chance to claim several million dollars


;)

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W3WN
10-24-2012, 11:09 PM
you could be missing your chance to claim several million dollarsDang! You mean Ed McMahon was knocking on the front door? (Be kinda hard, though, he's been dead for several years now)
VE7DCW
10-26-2012, 12:21 AM
Dang! You mean Ed McMahon was knocking on the front door? (Be kinda hard, though, he's been dead for several years now)

Did Publishers Clearing house ever get another spokesperson for their commercials after ol' Ed passed away...... ??? I don't think I remember one of their spots afterwards with someone else ......been a long time since i've seen one of their stupid commercials :chin:
W4GPL
10-26-2012, 12:26 AM
For whatever it's worth... and not that it matters, but..

He also presented sweepstakes for the direct marketing company American Family Publishers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Publishers) (not, as is commonly believed, its main rival Publishers Clearing House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Clearing_House)).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon#cite_note-0)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon#cite_note-1)
VE7DCW
10-27-2012, 12:27 AM
For whatever it's worth... and not that it matters, but..

He also presented sweepstakes for the direct marketing company American Family Publishers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Publishers) (not, as is commonly believed, its main rival Publishers Clearing House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Clearing_House)).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon#cite_note-0)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon#cite_note-1)

It's the attention to detail that counts!!!! ........ yikes!! I thought there was only Publishers Clearing house .......I stand corrected .... advertising does work!! :rofl:
N2NH
11-22-2012, 12:17 PM
I always get my mail from The Island. Never seems to be in my Spam box and even if it was, gmail doesn't really report them from what I know. They're too busy changing the privacy settings every week.
N2NH
11-22-2012, 12:18 PM
Did Publishers Clearing house ever get another spokesperson for their commercials after ol' Ed passed away...... ??? I don't think I remember one of their spots afterwards with someone else ......been a long time since i've seen one of their stupid commercials :chin:

I nominate Sarah Palin. So I can watch her quit another job. ;)