You've got bikemail!!!

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Stay in the loop with Skylands Cycling's bikemail system. Communicate with over 180 list members by emailing to a single address. Available to club members only.
Contact info@skylandscycling.com .

Urgent: Excite, Yahoo, Comcast, AOL, hotmail and gmail are again actively blocking spam, mailings that contain too many links, and most of all, Skylands BikeMail! These email providers usually give you a one chance notice that some mail is being blocked. If you wish to again receive bikemail from Skylands and any other email being send from a Skylands email address, you must add bikemail@skylandscycling.com to your Friends list or to your allow folder. There may be a second step required. You could have a blocked and/or blacklisted section that contains skylandscycling.com. You would need to remove Skylands from the blocked section. Several members are again receiving Skylands email because they followed these steps. bikemail guidlines

1. The Skylands Cycling bikemail system is for the exchange of cycling-related information that is of general interest to club members. It should not be used for personal communications, distribution of jokes or stories, or to circulate religious, political or other subject matter not related to cycling.
    
   
2. Use the "reply all" button with extreme caution. When replying to bikemail, it is usually not necessary to share your reply with the entire club. You can reply to the sender only by using the "reply" button.
    
   
3. Exercise caution when giving advice. Make sure you really know what you are talking about.
    
   
4. Remember that bikemail is primarily a tool for communicating about rides and other club events and activities. It is not a chat room or forum for debate, which we may in the future have on our website.
    
   
5. There is a 64Kbyte size limit for bikemail messages and attachments. Photographs, spreadsheets, graphics and documents more than one or two pages long will usually exceed this limit. If you need to send something that is over the limit, it can be done by contacting Bob P.
    
   
6. BikeMail is being blocked. Comcast* e-mail subscribers need to update their Friends filter to allow/accept bikemail. Recently, there has been an automatic removal of a few subscribers because the bikemail was being bounced or rejected by their ISP or e-mail provider. *other providers also: Yahoo, AOL.

   How did it happen: Yahoo and others implemented a much tighter Spam/Virus policy to protect their customers and themselves. Bikemail was sent to a 'Yahoo' customer. Yahoo probably notified the customer the first time the potentially harmful bikemail arrived. Without action taken by the customer, the 'from', "bikemail@skylandscycling.com" was added to the 'blocked' list and the 'sender/reply to' was also added to the 'blocked' list.

   How do I fix it: There are few steps involved. You needed to remove the senders address as well as the bikemail from the blocked list. You need to then add bikemail@skylandscycing.com to the friends/allow list. You may need to add some of the blocked senders to the friends list also. Some lists use logic for analysis. The address is checked against the lists so that the known alloweds are released. Then they are checked against the blocked list. The messages can be directed where to be placed in some filtering system. Smaller ISP/e-mail providers may not have the same system as Comcast, Yahoo, AOL et al.

7. Recipient Limit: The "MailMan" program will not accept your message to distribute if there are additional recipients on the To:, Cc: or Bcc: line. To send to those not on the bikemail mailing list, please send a sepatate e-mail.

8. Subscribe or Remove via the web