I recieved a message from AOL where-in they explained their concern for my safety and blocking spam and they said G-Mail was following soon. Perhaps we should convert to the system "DYI Electric Car" uses and check in occassionally on the conversations instead of having the torrents of E-Mails we are accustomed to. Changing with the times, so to speak.
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:02 PM, EVDL Administrator <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 May 2014 at 14:57, David Nelson wrote: > > > I have to say that Gmail has been marking an increasing number of list > > emails as spam even though I have the address in my contact list. > > I hate to sound like the cynic that I am ;-), but I'm afraid that the > spammers have very nearly destroyed email for all of us. Attempts to keep > them out seem to be well on their way to finishing the job. > > There's a lesson in there, I think, but it's WAY off topic for this list, > and probably controversial to boot. So we'll drop that one right now. :-) > > Back to the topic at hand. IMO, your options for usable email (and I don't > mean just "usable with the EVDL") are narrowing. > > I think the "free" (ad-supported) services will soon be untenable. I find > it ironic that Yahoo and AOL are so concerned with DMARC policy when they > host many webmail accounts held by pirates who've cracked the account > logins. (The EVDL's spam filters catch messages from these cracked Yahoo > and AOL accounts almost every day.) > > I think that the days of widely available "free" email are probably winding > down. Most folks who want good email will eventually have to pay for it. > > At this point I'd recommend to those with a little tech savvy that rather > than contracting with an email provider, they buy a cheap shared webhosting > account, even if they don't expect to ever use the hosting. I've seen > plans > as low as $5 a month, and there are lots of email-only services that cost > that much. (There are come-ons for around $2/mo, but they're usually > limited-time promotional deals.) > > Most such accounts let you create large or unlimited numbers of mailboxes > and email forwarders. You can usually access them with a POP3 or IMAP mail > client. Most also provide webmail, and without the ads you get on the > "free" services. > > With hosting accounts, you can usually choose whether you use spam > filtering, and how aggressive it should be. You can leave your mail > unfiltered; when the address starts attracting spam, junk it, and open a > new > mailbox. > > If you have to give an address to a website and don't trust it, create a > new > forwarder. If that source does spam you, or sells your address to a > spammer > (this happens more often than you might think), just delete the forwarder. > > Such a service is useful for folks who have EVDL memberships, and/or are > members of other email discussion lists. > > You can have a read-only address for the list, from which you never send > email. Since no one but you ever sees this address, you're unlikely to get > spam on it as long as you make it a hard-to-guess address. > > When you post, use a write-only address (one whose mailbox dumps right into > the bit bucket). This list, like most, tries to protect your posting > address; but let's face it, if someone reads one of your posts and leaves > it > on his computer, and that computer gets invaded by malware, a spammer is > apt > to get your write-only posting address. It won't matter to you, though, > since you never see incoming spam on that account. > > The downside of using a cheap hosting accounts for email is that some hosts > host spammers. Now and then you'll find your IP address blacklisted. Then > you have to file a support request, hoping they throw the bums off and get > the blacklist lifted for you. > > Ah, for the early days of the net, when it was mostly just academics and > computer hobbyists, and you could publish your address on the then-new web > with the expectation that only reasonable, decent folks would use it. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140501/18cb65b9/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
