Gmail, Yahoo, and other public mass email systems are more difficult to work with because their filters are convoluted, secretive, and aggressive (list owners generally don't know what is tripping a filter; and they normally shouldn't
know, because that would mean spam-producers would too and find new ways to circumvent controls). Such companies also don't have IT departments you can appeal to.
In your case, Harry, I would bet that Google updated or changed their filter system in some fashion leading to the sudden problem. I don't know gmail well, but you could do a couple things. One would be to add the listserv email address
to your contacts list (contacts are generally considered exempt from filters). Another would be to reset your current filter (delete it and re-save) in case the update altered how it is executed. If you can, make a filter for the domain (i.e. Indology.info)
and not for the email address (this helps eliminate potential variables in tripping a filter).
Hope this helps.
My best,
s
STEVEN E. LINDQUIST, PH.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES
DIRECTOR, ASIAN STUDIES
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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 9:08 PM
To: Patricia Sauthoff <sauthoff@ualberta.ca>
Cc: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Problem with indology list
I'm a gmail user and what I did was under "settings" and then uder "filters" to set all mail from "indology@list.indology.info to "never send to spam". so far it seems to be working. What
was strange is that everything was working till about two days ago and then the problem just started.
Harry Spier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:58 PM Patricia Sauthoff <sauthoff@ualberta.ca> wrote: