[E-trademarks] Mystery Delivery

Thu Jun 5 20:24:34 UTC 2025

Wow.  Good to know.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM Suzannah K. Sundby via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Btw, Gmail often blocks delivery of emails that have political-based info
> and/or pictures (attached and embedded).
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> I’ve often sent (using Outlook) emails to a friend (who uses Gmail), which
> emails have links or copy and pasted information from a news story or an
> attached or embedded in the email body a meme with no additional
> comment/addition by me and the email he receives is either tagged and sent
> to spam OR delivered to his inbox with the information stripped therefrom
> (i.e., the email is blank)… despite my being in his contacts/whitelisted.
> When we discovered this had been happening, I then sent the same to his
> non-Gmail email account, and he received the emails without issue.
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> So, the lesson is that Big Brother Tech reads emails and censors us.
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On Behalf
> Of *Robert Reynolds via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:36 PM
> *To:* For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek
> legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Robert Reynolds <rreynolds at kandrip.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] Mystery Delivery
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> You’re telling me that Comcast is blocking emails that have
> “dis/misinformation” or “controversial” content?
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> Perhaps they mean the Domain Name System Blocklists (
> https://spa.xfinity.com/help/postmaster?faq=avoid-blocks-ipv4)? These are
> a greatly-appreciated service that keeps the absolute worst of the spam in
> check. But if there’s an internal Comcast system that’s sniffing around
> like some sort of mini-PRISM it’s frustrating.
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On Behalf
> Of *Richard Straussman via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 4, 2025 2:04 PM
> *To:* e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com
> *Cc:* Richard Straussman <rstraussman at weitzmanip.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] Mystery Delivery
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> Do you receive these via a Comcast account by any chance?
>
> My personal e-mail is with Comcast, and I have experienced periodic
> blocking of all e-mails from one or more lists I subscribe to.  When I
> called their security number and complained, the tech person I spoke with
> told me that they are automatically blocking e-mails where (some
> undisclosed entity or AI)  has determined that the e-mail contains
> "controversial," "misleading" or "disinformation" etc.  They say it is
> independent of any SPAM filtering and is "to protect Comcast's reputation"
> which is a laugh given that most people I know place their opinion lower
> than whale excrement in the Marianas trench and Comcast is merely the
> conduit for what is being sent.
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> On 6/4/2025 2:45 PM, Diane Gardner via E-trademarks wrote:
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> I have not received email from this list in more than a month.  After a
> few days of not receiving messages, I checked my spam folder…nothing
> there.  Then I thought that maybe I had been unsubscribed accidentally, so
> I re-subscribed.  Still no messages.
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> Messages from other lists (design, patent center, etc.) were coming in as
> usual. I concluded that there must be a problem with the trademark list
> specifically and that we would receive some kind of explanation from Carl.
> Nope.
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> Today I received a message, and it listed 321 entries, dating back to the
> date that I stopped receiving them – April 15. Clearly, other people have
> been sending and receiving messages from this list as usual.
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> Did anyone else experience this?
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> Kind regards,
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