[Cz-biology] Gene articles, and new biologists arriving

[Marielle]

Some university accounts have spam filters that prevent e-mails from
even entering the spam folder.  I know that you could disable this
feature for cornell.edu mailboxes, so your university mail server
might have a similar option.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
>> Well, I wish I knew what more *could* be done.  The main problem that
>> happens with applications is that people never receive their
>> automatically-sent e-mails--either the e-mail confirmation mails, or the
>> welcome mails.  For some reason, they keep getting shunted into spam
>> folders.  We aren't aware of our being on any spam blacklists, or we'd do
>> something to get off them.
>>
>> The single best piece of advice we can give to people who are signing up
>> their classes for Eduzendium is: have students check their spam folders for
>> mail from CZ.
> I gave this advice to my students, but I was told repeatedly that those CZ
> mails didn't even make it to the spam folders. This seems to be the case
> with university accounts in particular.
> Daniel
>
>>
>> --Larry
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org
>>> [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Daniel Mietchen
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:10 PM
>>> To: Biology Workgroup List
>>> Cc: The Citizendium Constabulatory
>>> Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] Gene articles, and new biologists arriving
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Larry,
>>> I think it is the right time to start banging the drums among
>>> biologists. However, I noticed that more than half of the
>>> students of my summer course had problems with their
>>> registration, and I do not think they are much less
>>> computer-literate than the biologists we wish to join us.
>>> Please give this some more thoughts before you launch the
>>> calls for participation. Thanks, Daniel
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Larry Sanger
>>> <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
>>> > See http://news.google.com/news?q=Citizendium
>>> >
>>> > All the hits on Google News for us now (about 90 of them)
>>> are due to
>>> > the fact that we ultimately turned down Andrew Su in his long and
>>> > well-intended effort to get us to adopt pages about genes!  It's a
>>> > pity!  But I think it would have ultimately been a
>>> disappointment for
>>> > Andrew to see the gene articles uploaded here and then
>>> staying dormant
>>> > for who knows how long. Wikipedia does have a vigorous if imperfect
>>> > system, and perhaps his articles will be well served there.
>>> >
>>> > Meanwhile, I'll be doing a great deal on Biology Week in the coming
>>> > weeks. This will involve, among other things, posting many
>>> > announcements about CZ on biology mailing lists and forums, etc.  I
>>> > hope you'll join in with that. As a result, we'll probably see a
>>> > sizeable influx of biologists, and while as usual many of
>>> them won't
>>> > be active (it's a numbers game), a good few of them very
>>> probably will
>>> > be.  Especially if they have encouragement from the old hands!
>>> >
>>> > --Larry
>>> >
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