On 2020-01-24 at 15:11 -0800, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > This was for a classroom, however, so there's a very clear mechanism > by which an out-of-band communication can occur to look into the spam > label and fix it... presumably also obvious by the fact that the > person knew it went to spam for everyone at Gmail.
In this case -which I assume repeats for every new class- I think the best approach would be for the OP wife to get them to send an email to her as 'homework' for the first day of class. This let their email providers know that they want to engage with her, and avoids that first interaction of an unknown sender emailing to many people. It also helps correct the typos that there could be at the provided addresses (given they are not institutional addresses, I guess it probably involves getting everyone to write down their email on a sheet). Additionally, having already written to her may make some people be less shy from contacting her again if they have doubts. She could even make it full round, by replying to them and having them *find* her message (include a token they need to provide?). It may sound alien to the public of this mailing list, but some people *don't even know their mailboxes have a Spam folder*, and that some mails sent to their address end up there. Forcing them to find to her reply would be a useful activity for when there are later, more important, messages. Note I would grade those emails (albeit very little) usually, since you are having those people perform some work (and such motivation is probably needed anyway). It may be a bit unfair in the sense that depending on their provider, some students will have no problem at all (perhaps they don't even have spam filtering), while others may need to jump through hoops in order to receive them. It was however their choice to use one or other (even if unbeknown to them). It's better for them to find out early with a trivial assignment than when they fail to address an important message from their teacher later on. Best regards _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
