Re: Sourest citrus fruit as Spam

**"* Z* <b*@gmail.com>**

Thank you Doug, Everyone on this list with a blog or website should listen 
to what Doug says in this email. Doug should be allowed to expand this email 
into an instructional email for all of us to follow.
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Bruce Zimmerman
Open-Line Garden Show
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Green" <deegeeguy@gmail.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Sourest citrus fruit as Spam


> Thanks Margaret for that note.  To totally belabor this topic and I 
> promise
> to take this to my blog afterwards and shut up about it - imo, it really
> doesn't matter what a stand-alone system uses compared to something like
> Google.   Your desktop anti-viral software doesn't connect directly to
> Google and frankly,   I'm far more concerned about what Google thinks is
> spam than what McFee thinks is spam.  So if McFee works nicely for your
> stand-alone computer, then it obviously works nicely for you. And you're
> happy with this.
> Google controls my traffic - McFee doesn't.  If gmail puts an email into
> spam then that's a problem as it will then take a concerted effort to get 
> it
> out of that spam box.  And when gmail decides it's spam - then my websites
> are branded as spam sites on google-search and my traffic takes a hit. (do
> not think for one moment that all parts of google do not talk to each 
> other)
>  McFee can identify all the spam it wants and it doesn't matter to my
> website traffic - it may influence my open-rate on my mailings but that's
> about it. ( I'd welcome any data to the contrary.  Chris? ).
> So while one example doesn't make a case, the fact that Dr. Parmar's email
> hit my spam folder on gmail and found itself in an inbox only used by gwa
> (with other email addresses in the header btw so I know it's a mass 
> mailing
> - Dr. Parmer's mass email software has glitches) has other implications in
> our online world.  So perhaps gmail only did this one time and it's wrong
> and McFee's right or folks like the content so much they don't care.
>
> The main point (after my first coffee has started working) is that if 
> other
> gwl members are doing mass mailings, then they should be aware of the 
> issues
> involved.
>
> Again, I must apologize if I sound (ed) cranky on this issue.  I think I'm
> going to have another cup of coffee on a Monday morning.
>
> Doug
>
>
>> I find that McAfee shunts my most interesting mail (from friends)
>> into "spam" category.  I check the "junk" mailbox every day.  Dr.
>> Parmar's posts do NOT come through my computer as spam.  Margaret
>> Lauterbach
>>
>> ______
>>
> -- 
> Doug Green
> Editor-in-Chief
> SGF Publishing  www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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