[Rockhounds] possibly OT or maybe not OT - spam filters

Thu Jul 27 11:50:33 PDT 2023

You are probably failing one of the three email verification systems. If
your domain is not set up properly GMail will flag your messages as spam.

Email authentication: How SPF, DKIM and DMARC work togetherInternet
protocols for email authentication -- SPF, DKIM and DMARC -- coordinate
defense against spammers, phishing and other spoofed email problems.

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:08 PM <linda at middleearthminerals.com> wrote:

> I'd like to reply to Tim's comment that the "aggressive spam filters" (I
> agree with the word "aggressive"!) "catch a miniscule % of emails that
> aren't spam" (don't quite agree with "miniscule").  This might seem
> somewhat
> off-rock-topics, but for those of you who order rocks from websites, it
> might explain why some dealers seem to ignore your orders.  (Hint - check
> your junk/spam folders frequently.)
>
> Starting about a year and a half ago, over 1/2 of the emails I send from
> "mybusiness dot com" are treated as spam by gmail, aol, hotmail, etc,
> depending, I believe, on how the recipient's filters are set up.  But one
> recipient, an engineering professor who decided to experiment on these
> emails, was never able to find any setting for her gmail that would allow
> my
> emails to come through more than once.  Every business owner that I know
> has
> had the same problem if they use something like "mybusiness dot com".  I've
> had to switch most of my correspondence to a gmail account - if you can't
> beat 'em, join, 'em, I guess.  Tim, I'm surprised you haven't noticed this
> in your business email?  If you have a trick, I'd love to hear it!
>
> Anyway, mostly a warning for people to check their junk/spam folders, and I
> admit, a bit of a rant about how big companies (almost invisibly) protect
> their playing field from us little guys, sigh.
>
> Linda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> On Behalf Of
> Tim Fisher
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 11:27 AM
> To: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
> <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of
> a
> U.S. Lithium Boom
>
> Nospam was a joke to myself when spamming was rampant and email filters
> couldn't keep up. So I'm not sure it did anything, but I didn't feel like
> changing it back. My hosting service has aggressive spam filters now and I
> know they catch a miniscule % of emails that aren't spam :D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of J/P Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 8:09 PM
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of
> a
> U.S. Lithium Boom
>
> Tim
>
> How is the "nospam" working out.  I am looking for a better filter.
>
> Joe Davis  (a long time reader seldom responder)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Jul 21, 2023 9:15 AM
> To: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
> <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of
> a
> U.S. Lithium Boom
>
> One of them worked for me. Yes it had lots of ads but the article is buried
> there somewhere. I wonder if these websites even care if people can read
> the
> content, all they want is the ad revenue.
>
> Tim Fisher
> nospam at orerockon.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of Alan Goldstein
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 5:25 PM
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of
> a
> U.S. Lithium Boom
>
> All pay walls and Ford & Exxon stock info, Kreigh. I'm sure there's a
> fascinating article somewhere in there.
>
> Regards,
> Alan Goldstein
> www.alangoldsteinsuniverse.com
> www.facebook.com/malangoldstein
> AlanGoldsteinWriter on
> Facebook
> The Dragon in my Back Yard - Amazon
> Books
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows
>
> From: Kreigh Tomaszewski
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 10:16 AM
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: [Rockhounds] This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of a
> U.S. Lithium Boom
>
> MAGNOLIA, Ark.-Slipping a handgun into his belt, the mayor of this small
> town hopped out of his 1995 Ford
> > pickup
> and went in search of further evidence of a new energy boom.
>
> On the other side of a freshly painted gate, Mayor Parnell Vann pointed out
> a squat blue spire of valves, bolts and pressure gauges attached to a
> long-dormant well-a telltale sign someone means to bring it back to life.
> On the thick-wooded back roads, crisscrossing fields where oil drillers
> gave
> up long ago, Vann found two more similar wells that day.
>
> These days, companies in the area aren't looking to find more oil-they are
> instead prospecting for lithium, a metal that is increasingly prized around
> the world as an essential ingredient in electric-vehicle batteries.
> >
>
> If the U.S. is to ease its dependence for lithium on other countries such
> as
> China, it may need this quiet corner of southwest Arkansas to lead the way.
>
> Exxon Mobil
> > XOM
> 1.24%increase;
> green up pointing triangle
> >, a new player in
> the hunt for U.S. lithium, is planning to build one of the world's largest
> lithium processing facilities not far from Magnolia, with a capacity to
> produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, according to
> people
> familiar with the matter.
>
> At that scale, it would equate to about 15% of all finished lithium
> produced
> globally last year, according to one analyst.
>
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