Re: CRPL email bouncing

[Dan Linder]

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that many of the CRPL emails were bouncing to people who had @AOL.com, @Yahoo.com, or @Verizon.com email addresses.  I've been working with Chris from the Corvette Museum to rectify this, but Verizon (who also owns the Yahoo and AOL email addresses) is not responding to either of our emails to rectify this.

I am re-investigating a Google Groups email list I set up quite a few years ago before we moved to the Corvette Museum mailing list server.  At that time, many of you joined to help me test but we never pursued it after moving over to the Museums mailing list system.  I'm CC'ing that email address too - Corvett...@googlegroups.com - so if you receive duplicate/triplicate emails, I apologize.  (Apparently 'CR...@googlegroups.com' is occupied - I've reached to the owners to talk about transferring it since their last activity was from 2014.)

Right now, consider this a TEST of the Google Groups mailing list option, but it might be the option we move to if the Verizon issue can't be fixed.

While I'm not a fan of giving Google more personal information about myself or asking others to make that decision, the nice thing is that the Google Groups will be very easy for people to search (a request that I've long wanted to make reality on our website - https://www.corvette-resto.com/). And after all, I'd love to have all of this group's collective knowledge and wisdom made available to anyone who has an interest!

Please contact me - d...@linder.org - if you have any concerns about this option or alternatives we can look into.

Thanks,

Dan

--

***************** ************* *********** ******* ***** *** **

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, 

  you must first invent the universe."

  -- Carl Sagan

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

    (Who can watch the watchmen?)
    -- from the Satires of Juvenal

"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them."
    -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* *****************

[Don Olson]

I use yahoo for mail and this came through 

Don


Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

[Dan Linder]

As mailed a couple of weeks ago, the bounces from AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon have continued but the efforts to contact them to correct this have gone unanswered. :(

As much as I hate to suggest this, the only option for those users is to sign up on the Google Groups page that was setup in 2015:

    https://groups.google.com/g/Corvette-Resto

Once you've signed up you can email that list at: corvett...@googlegroups.com

I'm actively trying to work up a way to "merge" the two email lists, but this is exactly the sort of action that Google (and most mailing list providers) work to avoid for reasons.

Until then, if you're an AOL, Yahoo, or Verizon email user please use the Groups page.  It does have some benefits in that it has a good search feature (it is after all a Google offering), and the ability to include photos and other non-text attachments in the group messages is well supported.

Thanks again for all the great conversations in the past and yet to come!  This group has been beyond 'easy' to moderate since I took over the role many years ago - you're all a wealth of knowledge and experience about the Corvette and our hobby and I'd really hate to lose this group due to some technical/business decisions out of our control.

Thank you, and I hope you have a Happy Fathers Day all!

Dan

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 9:05 PM Dan Linder <d...@linder.org> wrote:

Over the past few weeks I've noticed that the mailing list server has noticed a lot of bounces to @AOL.com, @Yahoo.com, and @Verizon.com email addresses.

I just sent this email (below) to the CRPL mailing list address, and I'm sending this to a number of folks (BCC'd) who were on the "bounce" list mentioned.

If you receive BOTH of these emails, I'd like to know - I suspect you won't and would be happy if you did.  (And sorry for the additional emails!)

Thank you,

Dan

Original email to CRPL list:

Over the past few weeks I've noticed that the mailing list server has noticed a lot of bounces to @AOL.com and @Yahoo.com addresses.

I suspect that someone wanted to leave the list and instead of unsubscribing they used the "mark as spam" option and has flagged our CRPL mailing list as "spam".  (Both AOL and Yahoo are owned by Verizon so probably share spam filters.)

If anyone receives this who *is* on AOL or Yahoo, please take the time to look if there is a way to flag it as "not spam" to help ensure you can continue to receive emails.

Thanks!

Dan

--

***************** ************* *********** ******* ***** *** **

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, 

  you must first invent the universe."

  -- Carl Sagan

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

    (Who can watch the watchmen?)
    -- from the Satires of Juvenal

"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them."
    -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* *****************