Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

The email eating machine

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Just a note to all my readers: I’ve discovered today that Gmail has been eating (sending to the Spam folder) a significant amount of emails I’ve received to eruptionsblog gmail.com. This includes some of the questions submitted to Dr. Behncke (and other emails I’m sure) and comments pending on the blog. Sorry about the inconvenience, especially if I haven’t replied to your email. I’ll try to catch up over the weekend.

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