“The RoseBouquet”

Yesterday I discovered a catchall default email was plugged with over 4400 bounced emails! Yikkes. It took a while to delete them all. In the midst of a slough full of bounced emails from an address I haven’t used in many months (meaning someone has hijacked it to use for spam), I found a bunch of bounced emails from my RoseBouquet subscribers to the Ezine edition. Whoa! What happened?

I copied down a number of them to discover any pattern, and it seems the most common error message was; “temporarily deferred due to user complaints.”

And that means?

I realize not everyone checks for emails regularly, so their inboxes can get very full. They may also have set spam filters, and forgotten to whitelist my RoseBouquet address, so since it has links in it and may use some words on their no-no list these friends just don’t see my RoseBouquet any more.

I’m going to delete today those addresses that have shown up the most often. If that is yours, or if a friend of yours complains that my RoseBouquet is not coming any more, tell them to check their filters, and see about re-subscribing, or -

Another option is to see if you don’t already have an RSS reader on your computer (if not, install such a program), and then insert in your list of sites you want to read this link; http://ruthes-secretroses.com/RoseBouquet.xml You will of course, need to develop the habit of checking the RSS reader regularly, but then what you will see instead of the email, is titles and short blurbs for each section showing up - you can click on them, and go to the blog to read the full piece.

The reason RSS is getting so popular is that it bypasses this whole messy matter of filters and missed emails. When I get caught up on my email/ezines, I want to switch over to RSS too.