Re: Can someone explain to me... unsubscribed for marking a message as spam
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 03:53 pm, Chris Jones wrote:
I have pasted the "work in progress" version of the wiki page into the Group...I've done something similar...that is, to create a member notice with the appended text. It's called "Some Notes on Spam Filters." So far, I haven't had to send it to anybody, but I suspect it's only a matter of time. I plagiarized much of it from others here on GMF with only minor edits on my part. All credit to them. Hope this helps, Bruce Recently, many ISPs and email services have implemented a new "feature" that was supposed to reduce spam for their email users. When you mark a message as spam in one of these email services, it sends an unsubscribe request to Groups.io. Unfortunately, Groups.io and similar services must comply with this arrangement or risk having ALL of their messages blocked by that email provider. Some providers will even do this without your intervention. What does this mean to you? If you mark a message from Groups.io as spam, or leave a message from Groups.io in your spam folder for too long, your email provider could send us an unsubscribe request, forcing Groups.io to unsubscribe you from this group. Groups.io has created a work-around that returns a message with a hyperlink that will immediately resubscribe to our group. The problem is, if that message also lands in your spam folder and you don't notice it, you remain unsubscribed. The options available to prevent this behavior depend on your ISP. The best way, if available, is to "whitelist" the groups.io domain (or [email protected] specifically) so that all group email is forwarded to inbox. Or you may be able to set your spam filter to not hold spam but instead *mark* it as spam and forward it to inbox for you to decide whether to delete it. That way the spam trigger isn't set and you won't lose any messages that your ISP thought could be spam but wasn't. Another option to try is to change your message delivery options here on the Groups.io site. If you're set to receive individual emails and they're getting sent to spam, you might have better luck with one of the digest modes or a daily message summary. Please be advised that when you let someone or something else make these decisions for you, you may miss out on important information, and you might also be allowing your email service to unsubscribe you from messaging services. Thanks for reading this. |
Bruce Bowman