We're not answering your email?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 30th, 2005

Does it seem like you send SHECKYmagazine.com an email and never get a reply? Please re-send any correspondence if you’ve sent something to us recently and haven’t gotten a reply. We’ve always prided ourselves on replying to any/all legitimate emails.

But, the wave of spam got really bad there for a while. And, while we’ve got Earthlink as our ISP and, while we like their service and we’ve been with them a long time, their Spam Blocker options are frustrating. Either: one is capable of blocking a ton of spam (but inadvertently blocking a half-ton of legitimate mail along with it!) or one must “unblock” individual senders via an arcane system which requires us to manually flag those individuals as desirables– only after asking them to send an email along requesting to be unblocked. For this, we simply don’t have the time. So…

We’re going to start over, unblock all domains, selectively weed out the bad ones and hope that anyone who has sent along a note to us in the past few months (and hasn’t heard back from us) will re-send that note. We promise that it’ll get through Earthlink’s ham-handed Spam Blocker this time and we promise a reply.