Your email from me may be undeliverable one day
Kelly, a subscriber, wrote me to say that she is not getting emails from me.
If you are not getting emails from me at least every day, something is wrong. You may have forwarded an email and the recipient may have accidentally clicked on the unsubscribe link, which unsubscribes you. The simple way to prevent that, in the future, is to delete the unsubscribe link before forwarding.
Another occasional problem — your email provider may have rejected one of my emails one too many times and my email host might have responded by saying “Okay, that must be a bad address, let’s pull it from the subscription list.”
The truth is, there are lots of things that can get in the way to prevent me from sending you these daily messages that are meant to be encouraging to you and are meant to provide you ways to become more involved.
The backup is this: I have a Substack where I post many of these emails.
I am not going to lose you, unless you want me to lose you. I am not going to leave you behind unless you want to be left behind.
I will have more ways to keep in touch that we develop, but the Substack is a good way to double check for right now.
It is a way you can say to yourself, “I haven’t heard from Allan in 72 hours. I wonder if he got hit by a bus, or if my email program is just being a pest? Why don’t I go have a peek at his Substack to see if he’s been emailing.”
The censorship of our community is real, and by building redundancy into our systems of communication, we can help to be resilient against some of that censorship.
Does that work perfectly? No. But the more we recognize the ways to “hack” their system of censorship, the more we come along and be resilient in the face of that censorship.
None of us, in our lives, should allow for single points of failure by which we can be censored. Redundancy is a good weapon in preventing the Big Tech Oligarchs from seizing control of any of our lives.
So join my Substack if you want to have an extra way to double check. I am building these diverse redundancies to help make sure that you are never left behind, unless you wish to be left behind.
We have some exciting times we are going through. We likely have some exciting times ahead of us, and I intend to be there for you daily through thick and thin as those things happen. I expect for us to one day celebrate together on the victorious side of this battle ahead.
That’s where I am headed. And that’s where I hope you will go along with me.
Allan Stevo