Change of policy on non-member posts and other news from Tim
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
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@outlook.com. Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 11, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Timothy Wegner via OE <oe@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 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
I remember that happening to Jack Gilles and Jim Campbell and I don't remember what they did to stop it. Because they had posted their dilemma ; when it happened to me, I just changed my password. The other day a classmate sent a fb msg that led to me clicking on a link I didn't and instead blocked him. I sent him an email but it registered as error. There was also one that shuts you down unless you send money. It turned out to be a guy who was doing this to raise money for his college tuition. Strange times in which to be alive. Hugs, Judi On Nov 11, 2016 9:04 PM, "Lynda C via OE" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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@outlook.com. Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 11, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Timothy Wegner via OE < oe@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 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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Thanks for all that you do Tim.. In peace and love, Isobel I am fine w just the OE listserve.. I Sent from my iPhone
On 12 Nov 2016, at 11:46 am, Timothy Wegner via OE <oe@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 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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