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A comment on the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

And thanks for that link Kevin, I didn't even know that was there www.iwantsandy.com/email . And no, Sandy isn't receiving the emails... I don't think its getting forwarded because this is definitely a Gmail issue but I have not gotten any help on it. – ThunderBoy, on July 18, 2008 20:57

A comment on the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Thanks both Kevin and Rael, I definitely appreciate you following up (although it got me obsessed with trying to resolve the problem again and i wasted another 2 hours ;) -- Unfortunately or fortunately for RD this is definitely not a Sandy issue, it is a problem in Gmail. I only have one other forwarding filter from Jott to Stikkit. That one seems to be working... but I can't get to work ANY NEW forwarding filters. No idea what's the problem. They just aren't going anywhere – ThunderBoy, on July 18, 2008 20:18

A comment on the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

"r" works across the board, no matter how Sandy gets your message. – Rael Dornfest, on July 18, 2008 07:54

A comment on the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Have you solved this yet? Have you considered that your emails might be forwarding, but Sandy is just not understanding them? Check http://iwantsandy.com/email to see if Sandy's receiving your forwarded emails. Somebody said that using "r" doesn't work, but "remind me" does. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/ability_to_add_more_than_one_secondary_address#reply_330841 – kevin1, on July 18, 2008 05:12

icy-joker replied on July 09, 2008 01:44 to the idea "Defaulting reminders as to-do's" in I want Sandy:

I second this idea. For people with more todos than meetings, this would be a time saver.

Jon replied on June 30, 2008 13:40 to the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

it'd be awesome to be able to text sandy directly more easily, but the twitter method does work pretty well, so it might not be worth the trouble.

ThunderBoy replied on June 28, 2008 02:41 to the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Thanks PrimalOne,
I was ecstatic at your suggestion in what should have been an obvious solution and set about trying this that I had not thought of before, and thanks for putting this plug in our heads; However, in practice, it didn't work for me... For some crazy reason, my Gmail is not forwarding to Sandy... I have tried everything but the filter mechanism won't forward to Sandy...its not making sense why...I know and yet....
But it just won't forward...period. I get the email to myself in my inbox, but it doesn't go any further than that. No word yet on whether it is only opposed to sandy or if I tried to forward to another email if the same would happen. Haven't tried the latter.

But to recap, the filter forwarding mechanism isn't working for me. Alas! Back to the drawing board. One thing I need this texting thing for is that I park on the street and often forget where I parked the day before...lol. It has at times taken me upto an hour to find my car the next day and you can imagine how bad that could get when running to work...lol

A comment on the question "Texting, Not Emailing Sandy" in I want Sandy:

me too – aly, on June 23, 2008 18:20

sandyster replied on June 22, 2008 13:15 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Thank you Rael, it is good that have her back.

A comment on the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

woo, instant stikkit emails again, thanks! – dietrich, on June 21, 2008 16:09

Rael Dornfest replied on June 21, 2008 06:05 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Howdy!

I'm pleased to report that our spam filter is now completely empty and Sandy is reading and responding to incoming email lickety-split.

Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience and can't overemphasize how much we've appreciated your patience while we worked to resolve this matter.

Have a lovely and productive weekend!

—Rael

Rael Dornfest replied on June 21, 2008 02:51 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Howdy again, folks!

I wanted to drop in and provide an update on this issue.

The spam queue is all but completely cleared and I see Sandy replying (albeit late) to those of your messages that had been waiting in the spam system's inbound queue and those that are arriving again after being deferred earlier due to the email overload.

To give you some idea of the immensity: we've turned away over 400,000 spurious messages per day for the past couple-three days and are finally down to only 695 in Sandy's inbound queue.

We'll be continuing to work on fine-tuning that spam barrier to make it more efficient. To some degree there's not much we can do to anticipate that level of activity; on the other, we're always doing all in our power to deal with it if and when it does happen.

I apologize for the lag and trouble that undoubtedly caused you.

I'll follow up again later this evening with another update.

In the meantime, know that we appreciate your understanding, encouraging words, and all-out helpfulness.

Rael

A comment on the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Thanks for the updates -- I missed Sandy and was looking for alternatives! – David Singer, on June 21, 2008 02:10

A comment on the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

awesome, thanks for the update! – dietrich, on June 21, 2008 01:33

A comment on the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Howdy, Dietrich. This is affecting all of our mail. We're still working on it though. – Rael Dornfest, on June 21, 2008 01:22

deeter replied on June 21, 2008 00:45 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

I'm having the same issue as everyone else - however, I joined Jott and can Jott Sandy from my phone - she seems to be getting those just fine, so I can at least keep up with myself.

dietrich replied on June 20, 2008 23:06 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Rael, does this affect Stikkit as well? Outgoing mails from Stikkit are taking up to a day to be sent.

Rael Dornfest replied on June 20, 2008 22:10 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Howdy again!

We are indeed fighting another bout of blocking (successfully!) incoming spam which is causing some of your messages to be deferred. We're working to alleviate the weight on our spam firewall systems so that Sandy can once again read and reply to your email messages at top speed.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and expect all to be restored to normal shortly.

I'll follow up with another update within an hour or so.

Rael

tgeekb replied on June 20, 2008 21:54 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Thanks for checking into it Rael. I don't know what to do without my secretary! ;)

Rael Dornfest replied on June 20, 2008 21:41 to the question "Is emailing to Sandy broken?" in I want Sandy:

Hi folks!

I'm checking into this now. I believe it's one of the spam filters I put into place yesterday being a little overzealous.

Rael