Board develops new e-mail policy to prevent blocking

 

The Rotary Board has instituted a new policy concerning member e-mails, in order to get around a problem with company servers blocking messages.

 

Recently, our Rotarians were asked to let us know if they had had trouble receiving the electronic version of The Spoke; after a complaint, and analysis of messages sent via the website, we discovered that some Rotarians had their messages blocked by company servers.

 

Each of these Rotarians had given us a work-related address; company servers often treat mass e-mailings as spam, and filter them out -- thus, The Spoke kept getting rejected.  We solved the problem by having the affected members give us a personal address to send their e-mails to, instead of a business address.

 

So henceforth, new members will be asked to provide a personal e-mail account for us to use.  Current members who are having no problems receiving The Spoke may keep their current address, regardless of its origin; but if you should change your e-mail address for some reason, please be sure to give us a personal account to replace it with, so that your receipt of The Spoke and other Rotary Club mailings may continue uninterrupted.