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Author: Ian Helliwell

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Problems with emails getting through

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We have had an ongoing problem with emails getting blocked by BT Internet – this is hopefully now resolved and this is a test to see if a “New Post Notification” will get through OK.  If you have an @btinternet email address and you have received a “New Post Notification” about this post then all is now well! For all other email addresses – apologies for you having to receive the notification, but this is the only true test and BT requested that we carry this out. Thanks and have a great Easter Ian

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Video double bill: Desert Climbing plus Winter Mountaineering

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The video of the virtual meet series 3 finale – Double bill: Desert Climbing plus Winter Mountaineering – is now available via the Virtual Meet Gallery (click the link or navigate via the Get Out There menu).  This video contains two excellent presentations: Desert climbing in the SW USA with Jane Gallwey and Sam Simpson Learning to winter climb in your mid-50s – with Kevin Wheeler Well worth a watch…

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Marsden – Edale 8th January 2022 – update.

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Marsden – Edale 8th January 2022 – update.   I am withdrawing as the coordinator for this year’s Marsden – Edale and will not be taking part, but the meet will go ahead in a restricted form coordinated by Gareth Llewellyn.   In taking this decision, a I have considered a number of factors: The rapid spread of the Omicron version of covid is putting untenable pressure on the NHS and we all have a responsibility to do what we can to reduce the risks of transmission – there has been a 500% increase in infections in just the last week across the North West and High Peak Maintaining social distancing over a twenty-odd mile tough walk will be important to avoid breathing in particles from others and could be difficult when puffing and panting if close together up the steep bits, so care is needed… I do appreciate that, mostly, people are strung out across the moors! The crowded pub at the end is a perfect place for transmission (obviously individuals can opt to not go into the Ramblers). To put the icing on the cake, there are now no trains from Edale on Saturday due to engineering works! […]

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Marsden-Edale 8th January 2022

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Marsden-Edale 8th January 2022 Due to the current uncertainty around additional restrictions to control the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, this information may change at short notice. Please keep an eye on the website for last minute changes.   The annual post-Christmas romp on the moors!  Meet as usual at Marsden at the end of Wessenden Rd (GR SE048107 OS South Pennines OL 21 map) for a 7:45 start – finish at/near The Ramblers in Edale.  Note, a packed Ramblers is not an easy place to social distance so some form of outdoor check-in will be arranged for ticking off the finishers.   Granville will be doing a reduced form of his world famous soup kitchen again at Woodhead (car park at the start of the old road to Glossop) and later at Upper North Grain on the Snake Pass. Granville writes: “Because of covid, and the fact that I really do not have proper washing up facilities for the soup bowls and spoons for the next people, I propose to do tea, coffee, chocolate and water for bottles. Along with a plentiful supply of cakes and biscuits. Can all participants please carry their own mugs for brews[…]

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Update on email notifications

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A quick update on the issues we were having with notification emails being reported as spam (as described in the email from John Farrow yesterday). Detailed analysis showed this was stemming from the btinternet service.  All other email services – gmail, outlook, yahoo etc – were fine with our notification emails going out direct to subscribed users. However, BT has a specialised “artificial intelligence” spam detector which decided that it could not completely verify the validity of them so was either flagging them up to users as suspicious, or in 11 out of 52 mailboxes, was blocking them completely and reporting to our hosting provider that we were sending spam.  The solution to the BT problem has been to now route the emails through a commercial email service and to provide certification and tracability that proves-positive they come from where they say the come from, and we are who we say we are! Phew! A lot of trouble for 11 out 482 subscribed users, but we are now squeeky clean.  Tim Taylor and I will follow up with the btinternet users just to make sure they are all getting through now. Just a reminder, if you don’t want the notifications[…]

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