Dear Cougar Sportsline Subscriber,

The last two weeks, I have had enough emails and phone calls from random subscribers informing me that they did not get their newsletter on Monday, that I probably need to address the issue.

I HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED! ( By some of the email programs that you are using)

Because I use a bulk mail program to send out the letter, some email services that subscribers use automatically consider the letter as junk or spam. Consequently, they randomly will put the letter in your spam or junk email boxes. If you randomly don’t get the letter, I suggest the first place you look is in those two mail boxes of the program you use for your email. Almost all the time, that is where you will find the missing letter.

Occasionally, the letter will also randomly be sent to spam or junk mailboxes of subscribers if there are filters that a subscriber’s email provider uses to prevent profane or inappropriate language. This week I actually used the word “groin”. That will also randomly suspend me and send me to some of your email spam or junk boxes.

I will try to clean up the profane language and instead of “groin” use “below the belt” instead.

I will not, however, change how I send out the letter with a bulk mail program. I don’t have the time to individually send to each email address in my data base. That would also be considered a pain in the “below the belt”.  

THERE IS A SOLUTION (99% OF THE TIME)

Simply add my email address, hbarnett@fiber.net to your safe sender list. All email programs have some sort of safe sender provision that will allow you to signify from whom you want emails, regardless of their content, length or language, such as groin.

My experience has been that this procedure fixes all delivery problems 99% of the time.

If you continue to randomly be in the 1% category, let me know and I will call Al Gore, the inventor of the internet and email, to see if he can help us.

Your binary buddy and software code chum,

hb