This afternoon, seven people sent emails to me asking about their subscription status. I replied to each one but 3 of them were returned with a note telling me that I would have to be added to their list of "approved senders" and that in order to do so I would need to follow a link to set myself up as one of these approved senders. No thanks - I did't initiate the initial email contact and don't time to do this sort of thing. This is the same thing that Andy Dear mentioned in a post this past week.

If you email someone and ask them something and expect a reply, it's up to you to make sure their response email can reach you. That's your job, not theirs. Needless to say, 3 people will remain in limbo over their RodMaker subscription status.


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And they probably wonder why you and others don't reply to their messages!

Biggest problem with spam and junk mail blockers is that they don't know the difference between the two. Best thing is just open your email box up and let it all in but don't bother opening those that start with the obvious subject lines or from people you don't know.

One thing that I hate is when you know some one is getting you mail - and they don't reply

As someone who has had this problem, and is admittedly not very computer savvy, I'd like to point out some of the difficulty in this.

One thing I noted in registering for things, is that e-mail confirmation does not necessarily come fromt he e-mail to which information was sent. Further, there are potentially multiple e-mail addresses from which these responses could come...makes it difficult to identify permitted senders.

Not complaining...just indicating that it is not always as easy as it sounds.


mark

I understand that, but it is the job of the person who initiated the contact to make sure any reply can get through. Otherwise they have no legitimate complaint when they feel they did not receive a reply.

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Tom is righ. Blockers can be controlled.

Some e-mail clients use a white list. I have mainly seen it on corporate accts. It still is a pain in the tookus. The free web-mail services offer a solution to those who have no choice. Just pick one that offers a good key word list filtering technique to eleminate the spam while letting good e-mail through.
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