Did you not get the petition-confirmation email?

When you submit a petition entry at classicgvl.org, the website sends an email to the email address you indicated on the petition form. If you submitted the petition entry and the email did not arrive, there are three likely causes for problems:

• A mistyped email address. This seems not to happen very often, but it does sometimes happens to everyone—expert and inexpert alike.
• Problems in the network or on the website. This can happen when there is a high load on the internet. The internet protocols try hard to make messages go through, but when things are busy they give up.
• Spam filters that trap emails by mistake. This is the most likely culprit.

What to do about these problems

• You may always contact me using the website contact form.
• If you see or suspect that you mistyped the email address or used the wrong one, you might try one of the following:
  • Contact me to ask me to verify or fix the email address on the petition entry. In this case I will send you an email that contains the confirmation link. Using this link you may then confirm the petition entry with the correct email address.
  • Submit another petition entry. The duplicate entry would not be a problem because only the second entry would be confirmed. (You know this would be the case because the confirmation email for the first one would not be delivered because its email address was bad!)
• If you suspect there was a problem with the internet (outages happen from time to time), contact me and I will look into what happened. I've helped out three people so far in this drive who have had network problems.
• Email providers like Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, and Gmail all have spam filters. Spam filters perform a useful service, but they are not 100% accurate. They may fail to find that a particular unsolicited commercial email really is spam while falsely implicating messages that are not spam. For this reason, these services do not throw away message flagged as spam, but put these messages in a special spam folder. Take a look in the spam folder.
  • For Yahoo!, click on the Bulk folder.
  • For AOL, click on the Spam Folder.
  • For Hotmail, click on the Mail tab then the Junk E-mail tab.
  • For Gmail, click on the Spam folder.
  Other email providers with spam filters have similar arrangements.
  Again, contact me if you have a problem or are not sure.