Important update from SSA

Brian,

In a word, Earthlink, if that's the e-mail you used to try and
subscribe. The spam controls for Earthlink require a positive input by
the sender, not something list servers do. I personally find the
Earthlink model a bit annoying, but suppose it's effective. We do our
spam filtering, accept and reject lists, on a SQL server on the user
end. Earthlink and some of the others have also used some rather
spurious RBL services, requring list and server admins to jump through
all sorts of hoops to whitelist non-spamming domains, tailor
reverse-lookup replies for static IP assignments, and so on. Depending
on how the list server works and how challenges and errors are sent to
the list admins, you may have no chance of getting on some lists with
Earthlink due to the challenge/reply door. A Yahoo mail or Google
Gmail account is often a good work around, though you seem to have
found another.

Frank Whiteley

Brian Glick wrote:
Problem here Frank......I subscribed many times, and for some reason that no
one can figure out, I never get it. In this case, my director is nice enough
to forward it to me.


Brian
"Frank Whiteley" wrote in message
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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
wrote:

Text attached below:
Just kidding! You know where to find it.

As an SSA member since 1971 I think it's stupid to limit
this information to the SSA members who actually go to the
SSA website and click on a tiny "important news" icon. I
might never have known about the seriousness of this issue
if not for the original post here. I'm grateful for that
post. Even after I knew the contents of the letter, it took
me some time to find any hint of the problem on the SSA
website.

I've reluctantly decided to honor the SSA's decision about
how they want to handle distributing this information, but I
think it's shortsighted and extremely unfair to new members.
The SSA is in trouble and we need all the friends we can
get. To gain trust, we need to be as open as possible. The
first letter was good start, but it should have been front
and center on the web page. The update letter is even
better. I'd like to see it here.
--
T o d d P a t t i s t - "WH" Ventus C
(Remove DONTSPAMME from address to email reply.)

All SSA members have been invited numerous times to subscribe to SSA
eNews. The letter and update first arrived here by that means. Highly
recommended. The SSA eNews also provides other useful and timely
information. Once subscribed, it takes little effort to stay informed.

Frank Whiteley