No notifications?

[jym626]

Lenitus,
You might possibly have to contact the provider to unblock the domain and sender if it was accidentally “blacklisted”. Here is another notice I received from my professional listserv a while ago when this first started happening (note: the message I sent you above is more recent than this one. This may be old news)

Dear Listmembers:

We have traced the problems that we are having with the list. The cause of it is that we are receiving tens of thousands of spam email each day. This is clogging our system and preventing legitimate email from reaching our list server. XXXX has been less affected than other lists because we have a backup mail service, but this has delayed email from reaching the list. This situation cannot continue. For one thing our backup mail server provider is concerned about the large volume of email it is handling and has threatened to stop providing this service. In order to prevent this, I am changing how email will be handled. All email going to our list will now go through an email checker that will filter out viruses and spam. It is possible that our legitimate mail may on occasion be filtered. I ask your patience as I work through this problem. This service will also increase my costs of running this list. It is because of the irresponsible spammers who are interfering with email that is making these actions necessary.

I urge all of you to take the following actions:

1. Do not purchase anything from unsolicited email as this just supports spammers which is why we have these problems.

2. Do not complain about email from our lists to your isp (Internet Service Provider such as Yahoo, Gmail, AOL etc) as this will only result on our list being blacklisted which will prevent you and other members from getting our posts. If you don’t want to get our posts any longer just unsubscribe from the list and I will be happy to remove you.

It is my hope that these problems will be resolved shortly and things will return to normal. Thank you for your patience.

**** what they explained is that if some posters decided they wanted to stop getting email notification or wanted to stop participating on the list, instead of unscubscribing or changing settings they simply earmarked the email as “spam” and it went to their spam folder. However, this caused other people with the same ISP to stop getting email b/c it was earmarked as “spam”. Hope this helps.