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Yomama -- We sent the first email out on the 6th. When I heard the next day that some people, almost all on AOL, but some on Yahoo too, had not gotten the email, I quickly put a new email server together and sent it all out again from a different address hoping that would get through. I just spent three hours responding to several hundred AOL'ers who said they got the email I sent on the 6th on the 9th. None of them mentioned getting the "Re-send" of the email I sent the next day, so I don't know if that one will arrive tomorrow (!) or not at all. This is several hundred times more frustrating for me than it is for you (and time-consuming!). We have thousands of members who use AOL and when we send that many emails to AOL all at once it trips their "spammer" filters and they either slow our email down or delete it. Yahoo! slows our mail down when we send more than some secret number of emails to "expired" Yahoo email accounts. Since most people who let their Yahoo account expire don't come here and update their record, we only find out when their email bounces. I literally had about 5 complaints from people not on AOL compared to hundreds from AOL'ers. I'm guessing a lot of the Yahoo mails didn't go through at all. Maybe if AOL'ers complain to them they'll listen. I hate spam too so I appreciate that they're fighting it, but unfortunately they can't seem to figure out that what we send is not spam. Best, Rowland