Bowl of Saki -- Delivery Problems

Beloved Subscribers,

Over the past year, Comcast and ATT have generally been the most obnoxious blockers of the Bowl of Saki, but for a few months it was MSN/Hotmail.

Interestingly, the free email services of Yahoo and Gmail have excellent anti-spam protection, yet they never discard the daily Bowl of Saki. Therefore, I highly recommend using their services if you are having trouble with unreliable delivery.
 
Nonetheless, the spam situation is a real mess. Each year, and especially around the year-end holiday season, the spammers re-double their efforts to try to get our money. According to some estimates, there are 10 billion emails sent every day, and 9 billion of those are spam! The email service providers attempt to discard the most obvious spam before they deliver any mail to their subscribers, but unfortunately, in the mindless computer automated process of trying to discard 9 billion spam emails, they also discard or block some small percentage of good emails (such as the Bowl of Saki).

Many of the automated spam rejection algorithms look for certain key words, or for unusual words, and consequently, the Bowl of Saki, with it's unusual words and the frequent use of  "suspicious" words such as love, lover and beloved is an easy target for spam rejection.

Fortunately, however, the email service providers have the ability to "whitelist" certain domain names (such as wahiduddin.net) and if there are enough customer requests, they will eventually add wahiduddin.net to their "whitelist", in which case the Bowl of Saki will arrive in your email inbox each and every day.

In order to help to assure that all subscribers receive their daily Bowl of Saki each and every day, this entire web site was moved to a new dedicated server in September 2007. The new server is much faster and will allow a variety of new features to be added in the coming months.

Please note that whenever there are any email delivery problems, the current Bowl of Saki is always available here on this web site at:
 
        http://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
 

Additionally, the Bowl of Saki is available via RSS feed. ( What is RSS? )

with love,
      wahiduddin