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

[Del Morrill via OE]

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Del

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From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Lynda C via
OE
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 6:04 PM
To: Timothy Wegner <tim at tswegner.net>; Order Ecumenical Community
<oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Change of policy on non-member posts and other
news from Tim

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.  
Sent from my iPhone

> 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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