[RKDinOKC]

We have a group mailing list our salespeople and distributors can join.

To join the email list you send and email to the list, then it sends back an email you must reply to, then you are added to the list.

This does two things. It makes sure you are an actual person by requiring you to send from an actual email address, and it makes sure the messages do not go to your spam folder or quarantine. I even have instructions for them to check the spam filter and whitelist messages from the list if they do not receive the confirmation email they must reply to then re-send the subscription message.

it amazes me how many of our sales staff do not seem to be actual people as they are not able to do this.

What's worse is my boss has me manually add them to the list. Of course since they could not follow through with the subscription steps they end up never receiving any list emails because they are in their spam folders/quarantine or their spam filters reject the messages and are unsubscribed from the list.

Are you sure this is not MONDAY or is it that people are morons every day?