From: Paul Borghese (pborghese@groupstudy.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2008 - 14:14:00 ART
I have made a few changes with GroupStudy.
1. I am working on filtering postmaster messages from appearing on the list. We block over 500 spam messages/day from appearing on the list and I need to investigate how the postmaster messages are getting through. The filters will hopefully lessen their intrusion
2. I have implemented Sender Policy Framework to help eliminate spammers use of the domain. I would like to thank Zack Tennant for his suggestion/help
3. A few weeks ago, I implemented automatic removal of e-mail accounts that have delivery issues. Yahoo is the #1 culprit of non-delivery of messages. If you are receiving the list messages from a Yahoo account, you are in danger of being unsubscribed. When you subscribed to the list, the welcome letter warned you against using Yahoo and Hotmail accounts as those services only deliver about half of the messages posted on the list. We simply can not keep them queued on GroupStudy until Yahoo decides to allow delivery. I highly recommend you switch to Google Mail. Mention my name and they will give you the gmail account for free :-) .
4. GroupStudy has been in existence for over 10 years now. It cost me over $400/month to run GroupStudy, with very little outside support. We need additional bandwidth/servers etc. and I simply can not continue to flip the bill. Therefore I will be offering sponsorships for the list. The sponsorship will consist of a welcome letter at the beginning of the month welcoming the sponsor and a small two line footer on each outgoing message. Certification Science (my employer) has agreed to sponsor us for the month of April. If you know of other companies that may be interested in sponsoring for future months, please have them send me a private e-mail. I am trying to make the sponsorship as non-intrusive as possible.
Take care,
Paul Borghese
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