[Oe List ...] Change of policy on non-member posts and other news from Tim

[Lynda C via OE]

Tim, I seem to be one who is being inundated with spam the last few days.  At first it was just random ads, which I was trying to get unsubscribed from.  But they were asking for my address to unsubscribe me.  Then the porn started.  I'm now getting twice as many even tho I mark them as junk or say block the sender.     Any advice?  
 I am using our new email that we added when we moved to Davidson.  Lynda860 at outlook.com.  
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> On Nov 11, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Timothy Wegner via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Executive summary of below - make sure if you post to the list you are using the correct email (the one you subscribed.)
> 
> 1. Many of you have multiple emails addresses, and fairly often folks forget which one is subscribed to the list and send a post from a different email. Not to worry, I would get alerted and then let the message through. I have been providing this service for many years.
> 
> Recently some massive email spam sender has gotten our list address and our list is getting sent scores of spam messages a day. Not a problem for you, but a big problem for me. I have to look through a big list of spam for those aforementioned attempts at posting from you folks before sending the spam messages off to oblivion.
> 
> What I have decided to do is simply have the list discard all attempts at posting from non-subscribed emails. No work for me, and still no list spam for you. But this means if you attempt to post from the wrong email, it simply won't work and I will not be alerted and will not be able to rescue you as I have been doing for lo these many years.
> 
> If you need to be able to post from other email addresses than your subscribed email, just let me know, and I can make it work. 
> 
> 2. The problem with gmail that we had recently in which gmail users were being summarily unsubscribed appears to have been cured by some changes I made. If anyone is still having problems (or new problems) let me know.
> 
> The world goes on, and is still as broken as ever, as are we, mere creatures within the broken world, but Grace still abounds. Hallelujah!
> 
> Tim
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