[Businessmtg] In answer to BJ

[List Administrator]

Good morning,  Thank you Barbara for your inquiry! 

Yes. There was a block on the Yahoo email addresses and in September/October of 2016 I decided to get more factual information and from Esosoft (our server). They advised that all problems with Yahoo had been corrected in 2014. 

At that time I brought it to the Steering Committee and the decision was made to start accepting Yahoo email addresses.  The only disadvantage was that their email address (Yahoo and AOL)'would not show when they posted, instead ASP would be the email address. If you go to reply to these people then you would have their actual email address. The Steering Committee discussed this and as anonymity is a important principle of Al-Anon it was decided to go ahead as their shares would appear anonymously. 

The Greeter letters and the website were both changed in October of 2016. The new Greeter #1 letter was revised and approved by the Steering Committee. 

Hugs 
Sandie 


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> On Mar 30, 2017, at 8:48 PM, ASP Secretary <asp_secretary at asp-afg.org> wrote:
> 
> I was one of the greeters at this time that Apryl is referencing. AOL and
> Yahoo made the server go wonky and the recovery meeting shut down a couple
> times because of it. So we suggested different email, but it wasn't just
> GMail. I know there was at least one other option.
> 
> Laura
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Apryl Schneider <aprylkae at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> When I was greeter chair the server went through a period where it was not
>> playing nice with certain email hosts like AOL (if memory serves). At some
>> point discussion amongst the SC landed us around the idea the gmail seemed
>> to place nice with the server. The greeter letter was updated to "suggest"
>> that an email provider such as gmail worked better than known offenders AOL
>> and I think it was Yahoo but I could be wrong. We should not be requiring
>> anything.
>> 
>> This is all from memory though.
>> 
>> Apryl
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