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brihas··on An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to Gmail spam filtering
We use the news.pariyatti.org domain for these emails. If you're willing to help troubleshoot, that would be much appreciated. Otherwise I'll try to work through your recommendations, although a lot of it is very new to me so I'm not sure how far I'll be able to get. You can reach me via email at my HN username @pariyatti.org if you wish to discuss further.
brihas··on An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to Gmail spam filtering
I work for a small non-profit and we've had the same issue. We use SendGrid to send out our email newsletters and the open rates have fallen from ~27% to ~13% over the past month.

Does anyone here have contacts at Google who might be able to help? [Edit: I've also reached out to SendGrid support to look into this]

Looking at the data more, the drop is due to a ~73% drop in Gmail opens. Hotmail and Yahoo opens remain stable:

1) See drop in overall open rate here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8grg3r684zshhz/Drop%20in%20open%2...

2) See drop in Gmail open rate vs. Yahoo and Hotmail here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fdvbddwno27mgf/Drop%20in%20Gmail%...

brihas··on Meditation: Why Bother?
Here is a nice essay by S.N. Goenka titled "The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation" http://www.dhamma.org/en/art.shtml
brihas··on Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast
Check out Vipassana meditation: http://www.dhamma.org. They offer 10-day residential courses for no charge at centres worldwide.
brihas··on Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era
Here is a video of the speech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-o...
brihas··on Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
Check out Vipassana meditation: http://www.dhamma.org. They offer 10-day residential courses for no charge at centres worldwide.
brihas··on Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update with lots of bug fixes
I had the same problem, and called Apple support. They said they have been getting calls about it all day. The solution is as follows:

Turn off your computer (don't worry it is safe to do so).

Restart and log in.

Go to /Library/Updates/ and delete the Mac OSX Update folder.

Use the standalone installer to update your system. You can find it at http://support.apple.com/downloads/