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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat earth is not a viable model

« on: September 15, 2017, 05:44:59 AM »

to squirrel -- You said  - You will not see curvature of the Earth at 30,000 feet.

That's very true.   Because there is no curvature.

Can you please provide some evidence for this?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat earth is not a viable model

« on: September 15, 2017, 03:51:47 AM »

The good Dr. in your #1 website takes the word of God and twists it to mean what he himself wants it to mean. I'm sorry but I can't use him as evidence of anything.

That sounds dangerously hypocritical.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: just one question

« on: September 15, 2017, 12:41:51 AM »

https://wiki.tfes.org/Atmolayer

Went to the wiki, searched for "atmosphere", took me right there.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: How to prevent most site registration emails from going to spam

« on: September 15, 2017, 12:31:22 AM »

Hey Parsifal,

If/when you implement these things, feel free to send me a site mail directly if you are able to and I'll happily review the headers for you.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Disproof: Why doesn't the southern hemiplane freeze?

« on: September 15, 2017, 12:18:35 AM »

It's simple to observe and test yourself the data given on timeanddate.com, and if it didn't match reality I find it extremely difficult to believe it has went unnoticed by people all across the Earth.  The argument that it doesn't match reality sounds pretty ridiculous.

However.... all Tom has been saying aside from that is that their site never mentions that they use SOFA libraries under the hood.  It's true, there is no mention of it, therefore that statement is totally valid.  We really don't know what they use.... any argument on either side is speculation, so why continue to argue that, it's not going anywhere for FE or RE.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: How to prevent most site registration emails from going to spam

« on: September 09, 2017, 07:26:17 AM »

That's fine, I should be able to get things sorted out. I'm just going to get a gmail account set up first so I can actually test this behaviour, but right now isn't a good time for me to work on this, so that will have to wait until later or tomorrow.

I will let you know if I have questions, and thanks in advance.

Perfect starting point.  Best of luck!

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: How to prevent most site registration emails from going to spam

« on: September 09, 2017, 07:05:10 AM »

All I just mentioned is often confusing to even admins like you and I'm still here to answer further questions.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: How to prevent most site registration emails from going to spam

« on: September 09, 2017, 06:37:47 AM »

Thanks for raising this issue. It's mostly a case of unawareness -- those of us who run the site don't regularly create new accounts, so we don't notice if e-mails end up in spam folders. I also don't personally use gmail, so I'm unfamiliar with its behaviour in this case.

SPF is set up on tfes.org and has been for years. Would adding DKIM/DMARC really make that big of a difference? If so, I'll take a look at setting it up.

It makes a world of difference.  I saw that spf was indeed setup for tfes.org, but your SMTP MAILFROM (separate header of which SPF works from) is not tfes.org, so unfortunately it's not even being applied to these mails.  Properly implement SPF and DKIM, and your DMARC should also pass and should require nothing further aside from making sure both FROM headers align (are the same @domain, which they aren't now).

Edit: I see you use postfix which is very good and the things I mentioned are well documented on how to integrate with it.

Edit again: your spf is set to hardfail (-all), I highly suggest turning that to a softfail (~all) once you setup DKIM.

Edit 3 -- long story short you are behind on your email auth.  Get it up to date and I guarantee your inbox placement will skyrocket.

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Suggestions & Concerns / How to prevent most site registration emails from going to spam

« on: September 09, 2017, 05:40:01 AM »

To whom it may concern:

New user here.  I see that in your registration process you mention to check your spam folder for the confirmation email in case it lands there.  As a gmail user (gmail does very well with email security practices), it went straight to spam.  As a person with a relatively extensive email security background, it was immediately clear why.  I can give you very simple instructions to dramatically improve your inbox placement without needing to spend a dime on software.  If any admins here are interested, I'm happy to help, free of charge of course.

Edit:  after reading over my original post, it sounds kinda shady... for transparency my advice would be about how to implement authentication mechanisms such as SPF/DKIM and things like making sure your sending domains align for DMARC checks.  All easily googled stuff but I assume this site has had this problem for a while since they are not properly in place, so just offering some help pro-bono.