Now and again, we get a message asking us why we’ve stopped sending someone the Daily Grok! Newsletter. For those unfamiliar, it is a digest of most of the past days’ new content, and there is some suspicion that Gmail may be hiding it from you.
We’ve never dropped anyone from the list, so it is a concern if you are not getting it. If you have Gmail and are subscribed to the Daily Grok, are you getting your daily Grok? If you use Gmail and are not subscribed, could you please sign up so we can further test this suspicion?
Most, if not all, of the people who have reached out over the years, are using Gmail. Whenever we look, our WordPress newsletter plugin – it’s all automated – says it is sending to these addresses daily, but they are not receiving them.
A recent issue was resolved when the recipient who wasn’t getting the newsletter signed up with a non-Gmail account, and they got it the next day.
If Google is censoring the content, it might be nice to know. If it is a more isolated issue with an ISP or some other snafu, we’d like to work that out as well.
Many of our readers use the newsletter as a vehicle to reach us, and we want to ensure all of you who have signed up are getting it every day.
If you are a Gmail user and not receiving it, try signing up again, then let us know if you don’t get it – you won’t get (or not get) it twice. The automation filters out duplicates. If you have Gmail but have not used it to sign up for the newsletter, can you sign up as part of this test? You can unsubscribe from that mail account after the test or keep receiving the newsletter (assuming you get it), whatever suits your inbox fancy.
The system launches the distribution at 4 PM ET daily and releases a few hundred every hour until late evening. Email me at steve@granitegrok.com (give it a few days) if it doesn’t work.
And thanks in advance to everyone who helps out!
Note: yes, I understand that those who signed up but don’t get it and have not noticed will not be participating. That can’t be helped.
