Not receiving your emails?

By SSO | June 19, 2023 |

Please note that when you subscribe to our newsletters, you must confirm your subscription. When you first subscribe we send you a confirmation email to the email address you provided. You must open this confirmation email and click on the link inside to confirm your subscription, otherwise you will not be registered to begin receiving our newsletters. Contact us if your having trouble with this step. Click here if your registering for the first time. 

If you’ve provided us an invalid email address your account may be deleted as a result.

It has become apparent that some email providers are identifying our Newsletters as Spam. This, of course, is ridiculous. We know you want to receive our newsletters (unless you choose to unsubscribe) and we want you to get the latest information on upcoming tournaments and our results from past tournaments.

Only you can fix this issue. You have to contact your email provider and ask them not to block our emails coming to your inbox. You can request to allow our emails to be delivered and or request they stop filtering all your emails as they are doing now. If they offer a web mail service it’s possible you can set it up there to allow our emails in or you can turn off the setting to filter everything.

If you allow your service provider to filter all your emails they will always get it wrong by blocking emails you want to receive.

I personally have instructed my provider, the day I signed up, to not ever filter any of my emails. I’ve specifically instructed them to send ALL incoming emails to me. Your provider will do this for you also upon request. Their default action is to filter your emails and not tell you what they did. They will always block wanted and valid emails from time to time due to their imperfect filtering systems.

History has shown that they can never do an accurate job of deciding what is spam and what are legitimate emails. There are always “false positives” and you will always be denied emails you want to receive, mostly without you knowing about it and/or having a vote to decide what they will or will not deliver to you.

If your email service provider is on this list below, then you might be denied legitimate emails from, not only us but from who knows from where else.

Known offenders list:

  • yahoo.com is the worst so the top spot belongs to them. They block valid email you should be receiving.
  • aol.com is also very bad. They too block your valid emails.
  • att.net
  • domain.name.com
  • sbcglobal.net
  • ameritech.net
  • earthlink.net
  • juno.com
  • macomb.edu
  • iquest.net

Should you choose not to do this or have difficulty doing so, you could create a new email address with someone other than those providers listed above. Unsubscribe your current email address and the subscribe again with your new email address. You will then begin receiving our newsletters again.

Please unsubscribe/remove your current email address we have on file for you now using the same method to subscribe. Contact us if you need assistance.

It should also be noted that if at any time our newsletters are treated as spam by you or someone at your address you will be permanently removed from our mailing list.

Security News on Yahoo.com

  • Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked more than three years ago, in August of 2013.
  • Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me
  • If I refuse to learn from my mistakes… well… who’s fault is that?
  • What security-conscious person could possibly still be using Yahoo!?
  • 3 months ago, in September, 500 million accounts hacked in 2014.
  • Last Wednesday we learned that a year earlier, more than 1 BILLION accounts were compromised.
  • This most recently revealed attack disclosed sensitive user information, including names, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and unencrypted password reset security questions.
  • Although in September Yahoo declined to require password changes and to reset security questions, it is doing so this time. (Again… how is anyone still there?)
  • What to do?
  • Leave Yahoo forever.
  • If you ever reused your Yahoo password, change it everywhere now.

Press coverage:

Listen to the audio here… https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm episode 591.

You can download the video podcast here…  https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/591?autostart=false  To download the video click the “Download Options” button.  It starts about 30 minutes into the video.