In the past when there was no response to a reply sent to the poster of a message, just chalked it up to they were too busy, a misunderstanding of my intent or worse I was ignored (yup, I wanna be loved).
I got a email from a freecycle Yahoo group moderator and learned that replying to the poster ends up in the spam mail. That explains away my paranoia. If anyone has ever sent something to me this way, I apologize for not getting back to you. I switched my settings and checked to see where the email replies I did get came from (yahoo.com or a third party mail app like gmail or .mac) and sure enough, third party mail gets through, yahoo is directed to spam folder. This is what I received: "If you use Yahoo email and you have your bulk folder set to automatically delete messages that go there please change it! It appears that Yahoo is frequently treating mail from your fellow Freecycle members as spam. Case in point, we recently had an member who uses Yahoo email write to us to say that last weekend she was only able to communicate back and forth with members who did not also have Yahoo accounts. Many members who used Yahoo email asked for her items but when she said they could have the item and asked them to send a reply, she never heard from them again. This is too coincidental for them all to be no-shows because she says that people are usually very good about responding back. So please, check your bulk folder settings so that you don't accidentally delete something legitimate." Wow, it always something ... Hard to know how many people on this list occasional reply directly to another's post using the drop down menu. In the last thirty days I may have done it (about average) 10 times. Looking at my emails, I have only three replies. Hope this helps, clears up any misunderstandings and eliminates the potential of mail hitting the Spam. Forever pissing in the wind, not against. D
