xo Site Admin
Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Los Angeles [comcast]
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Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject: Why you don't get an email from this site |
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By "email from this site" I'm not referring to spam - I don't spam and will never do so. It's up to you when you register to choose to believe that or not.
The issue is the capability of this forum software in use here (phpBB) to send email on a least 4 occasions:
account registration- it emails you a confirmation and password reminder for your records
password reset - if you forget your password, you can have it reset and sent to you.
private message notification- it emails you a notice that you have a private message waiting
thread "follow" notification - if you ask to be notified when new posts appear in a thread, it'll email you
Pretty innocuous and possibly quite useful use of email I think.
Unfortunately, these features will not work for some of you because of the actions of certain anti-spam groups. Organizations such as SPEWS have a policy where they will ban entire netblocks based on the actions of one or a few hosts and apparently one of my "neighbors" was at one time deemed to have been a spam host.
It's a charged and controversial issue that you can read about elsewhere if you are so inclined- I won't go into that here. Bottom line is that some of the ISPs that you folks use for email are refusing messages of the type above, and from me personally because they choose to subscribe to and utilize the aforementioned blacklists. And, unfortunately, I'm not in a position to change hosts - it will cost me more money than I already spend, more time, and downtime of services for me.
So - if you find that features such as those described are not working, this is probably the reason. If you find that I'm not answering email in a reasonable timeframe, this is probably the reason. This hasn't been a serious issue (yet)- the ability to register and use this board does not require email the way I have it configured. I do want to make this issue known, however.
If you have reason to think you are affected and would like to know, drop me a line. I think it would be a breach of trust/privacy if I were to post a list of affected accounts here so I'll leave it up to you if you want to know.
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