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Hey guys,

This came up in a message from chibi-kaz, and I thought everyone could
use the reminder.

If you are an author competing in the MEFAs, a volunteer, or a
participant in any other way, there may come a time that we have to
email you. We don't do this a lot but if we do need to contact you
it's important that the message gets through.

All official email will come from one address: mefasupport@gmail.com .
If you have a spam filter you should make sure that your email program
will not catch emails from this address. This can usually be done by
telling your email that the address mefasupport@gmail.com is safe and
should not be treated like spam.

Here are the official instructions from Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Netzero,
and gmail (Google's email) on how to make sure messages aren't marked
as spam. For most of these instructions you will need to be logged
into your respective email's web interface, for example,
http://mail.yahoo.com/

Yahoo
We make a concerted effort to email that you want directly to your
inbox. If you believe that a message delivered to your Bulk Mail
folder is more appropriately delivered to your inbox, please click the
"Not Spam" button at the top of the message. The email will be
automatically forwarded to a Yahoo! Customer Care associate for
careful review.

Yahoo! will attempt to deliver the future messages from the same
sender to your Inbox. You can help increase this chance by adding the
sender to your Address Book.

If you continue to see these messages in your Bulk Mail folder and you
would still like to receive them in a different folder, you can set up
a filter to redirect them to any folder you wish. You can find more
information at filters help.


AOL/AIM
5. I don't seem to be getting e-mail someone else is sending me.

First, check your spam folder if you have one. (If you have AOL 6.0 or
above you may access your spam folder by going to Keyword: Spam Folder
or by visiting your mailbox on AOL 9.0 and above) If you find the mail
is in your spam folder, just hit the "This Is Not Spam" button when
you open it. If this has happened repeatedly with the same sender, try
adding the sender's address to your address book.

If you find that you are having problems with mail being delivered to
the spam folder, check the settings on your account, which you can
find at KW: Mail Controls.

If the sender is sending from an AOL address, please have them contact
the appropriate branch of Member Services for help.

If the mail is not in your spam folder and the sender is not another
AOL member, please contact the sender of the mail and have them visit
our Troubleshooting page to start diagnosing the problem or the sender
can contact us.



Hotmail
To ensure that messages from specific e-mail addresses are not sent to
your Junk E-Mail folder, you can add them to your Safe List.

1. Click Options.
2. On the left side of the page, click Mail, and then click Junk
E-Mail Protection.
3. Click Safe List.
4. Type an address or domain (a domain is the part of an e-mail
address that follows the @ sign) from which you always want to receive
messages, and then click Add.

Notes

* You can have up to 500 entries in your Safe List.
* The Safe List filter is different from the Mailing List filter. The
Safe List filter uses the From line of a message to filter e-mail. The
Mailing List filter uses the To line.


gmail
Make sure you've added your friends' email addresses to your Contacts
list. Gmail always delivers messages from your contacts.

Netzero
In order to make sure that certain messages from safe senders get to
your Inbox, you can define Do Not Block.

To Configure your Do Not Block List:

1. Click the Settings link and select Email Features.
2. On the Email Features screen, click the Do Not Block link.
3. The Email Features: Do Not Block screen will appear, displaying
your current Do Not Block.
4. You can add an address to your Do Not Block List by typing an
address in the box under Add Address to Do Not Block.
5. Click the Add button to add the address to the list on the right.
6. To remove an address from the Do Not Block List, click the address
and click the Delete button.
7. When you are finished, click the Save button. To cancel your
changes, click Cancel.

Marta