RE: MUG Messages "Rejected", False Positives
RE: MUG Messages "Rejected", False Positives
- Subject: RE: MUG Messages "Rejected", False Positives
- From: MUG NEWS <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:00:11 -0500
RE: Paul wrote:
> I wondered whether he and others have shared my own
> experience and/or have thoughts on what to do about...
> ... I also find that a few of the MUG-related messages
> I send out to my group's members get rejected by spam
> traps of one sort or another too.
It's becoming a way of life.
We lost 60 in the past week from our list, and each day
new ones are "Rejected" by various filtering and trapping.
They are the ones who "respond" with the trap message...
many, many others do not.
Local filtering, or filtering through some set-ups (like dot-Mac)
do NOT alert the sender of the block. The sender either gets
a bounce, or simply never hears and assumes the mail is getting
through.
For important contact with important people, mail, postcards,
or the telephone are returning to popularity and beginning to
once again overtake email. Spam has ruined the real usefulness
and convenience of email.
Important lesson for user groups NOT to stop some form of
regular mail contact with their members.
I'm also finding that people can't, don't, or won't "whitelist"
good addresses because they "don't have time"; don't care;
or don't know how. Society has reached the ceiling of
daily responsibilities and chores.
User Groups should develop and publish a "phone chain" --
so just a phone call or two, all members can be reached.
Besides, in most cases the recipient is happy to 'chat' and
have personal contact with the other member. I've never,
ever had a member reveal they 'didn't' want to receive
my phone call. They're always pleased and surprised I would
call them.
I recently talked to the ISP admin of one of the larger online
user groups. He said they've basically taken the attitude
of "shovelware" ... members lost due to filtering are
(hopefully) replaced by new members, and they really don't
care one way or the other... it's "shovelware" ...
shovel them in, shovel them out. (Probably to sell 'views'
or click-through for advertising/revenue sake.)
> Comments? Similar experiences?
Try to impress on the memberships to FIND OUT HOW to
whitelist email addresses at SMTP Server level so your
mail can get through. Those who can't, don't, won't...
well you'll just have to let them go.
:-)
Fred
Fred Showker
http://www.user-groups.net
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