Mosaic will be off emergency moderation by end of day on Monday. That said,
I have information that I would like ALL members to seriously consider.
As you know we live an email world dominated by spam. The result is that
many big providers like MSN, AOL, Comcast, etc. have email server software
relentlessly looking 24/7 for spammers sending out lots of messages.
The Mosaic group often falls into a suspicious sender category because:
1. Email providers' software sees a lot of messages from Mosaic.
2. Server software knows that Spammers send out lots of messages.
3. Therefore, Mosaic is sending spam and is blocked.
It's simply a numbers game and it is brutally efficient.
In the last week we've been blocked by Comcast, WaveCable, AOL, and Yahoo
along with a whole bunch of K-12 and university servers. This was not caused
by the actions of our list, but by other circumstances that rolled up on my
server provider. I know we are an innocent victim but server software
doesn't care. Basically, Mosaic lived on the same block as a spammer;
therefore we were branded as spammers.
Your help is really needed more than ever and here's what you can do...
Please remember every Mosaic message or reply is sent out to about 3000
people. A 10 message day for Mosaic means that about 30,000 messages flow
out to providers. This means that a busy day for us will mean over 50,000
messages sent out. Believe me, this gets noticed.
Please try to ensure that messages your send to Mosaic advance conversations
and provide all members with pertinent information and/or supporting
explanations. In other words, we want our messages to count for sharing
ideas, resources, and experiences.
Please trim your replies to include only the briefest quote of a previous
message. This means we want to see your 20 words with a few previous message
words. We do NOT want to see your 20 words that include 12 pages of other's
people words that have already been seen. Be green in your replies!
Please...Contact ONE person when you want to ask ONE person a question.
Contact ONE person when you want to ask ONE person for a resource. Contact
ONE person when you want to tell ONE person that you agree with him/her.
Please contact ME with any questions about your membership.
If you want to make sure you get Mosaic emails, I'd like to point you to
consider Gmail as we have yet to be blocked by this provider.
As always, you can read and search posts to Mosaic by going to the archives
at the link at the bottom of this message - no membership is required.
I really appreciate your time and efforts to help Mosaic survive and thrive
in the months and years ahead. There is great worth in this community's
wisdom and sharing.
Thanks,
Keith Mack
Web Administrator for Mosaic List
km...@literacyworkshop.org
___
Mosaic mailing list
Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to
http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
