NEW “THEME” AND OTHER UPGRADES REQUIRED by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 25, 2020) — Last winter The Post & Email was informed that upgrades to the site would likely be needed in 2020. We subsequently launched a fundraiser to which readers responded generously. The funds collected were largely used to upgrade our “Comments” section twice: the […]
WHAT WOULD CAUSE THIS PROBLEM? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 12, 2020) — As of approximately 6:00 PM EDT Tuesday evening, we became aware that comments submitted and approved were not appearing to the readership despite our ability to see them from inside the WordPress “Dashboard.” Approved comments on all articles continue to be acknowledged on […]
THE POST & EMAIL IS BACK! by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 9, 2020) — 3:19 AM EDT – For the first time in more than four days, the lights are on without flashlights or the sound of the generator humming noisily in the background. The Post & Email has been “off the grid” for more than […]
“ASKING THE QUESTION” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 25, 2020) — As readers of this publication are aware, on May 21, 2020, PayPal, Inc. “restricted” both The Post & Email’s 10+-year account and another unrelated account with even more longevity without explanation. Since that time, the company has not responded to our standard-mail inquiry nor to […]
IS RESOLUTION OR ARBITRATION NEXT? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 13, 2020) — On Friday, the U.S. Postal Service confirmed receipt of The Post & Email’s complaint to PayPal, Inc. for closing its editor’s accounts without reason and, we believe, without justification, on May 21, 2020. Following PayPal’s instructions in its User Agreement, the editor completed […]
BOTH PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY by Sharon Rondeau (May 23, 2020) — After approximately 10½ years of usage and no previous issues, on Thursday The Post & Email was notified by email time-stamped 6:30 a.m. that its PayPal account was “restricted.” We initially reported the email as a likely “spoof,” as we have received dozens of […]
TURN IT OFF! by Sharon Rondeau (May 14, 2020) — At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, The Post & Email was provided a suggestion for eliminating the “403 Forbidden” error message appearing more than two weeks ago after we updated several WordPress plugins. Plugins are software add-ons to enhance the usability and performance of WordPress […]
NO “PERMISSION” NEEDED! by Sharon Rondeau (May 9, 2020) — The Post & Email appreciates readers’ reports over the last two weeks of an intermittent “403 Forbidden” message appearing when an article is accessed. “Permission denied,” the irritating message continues. “Our sentries tell us that you should not be here.” The Post & Email requires […]
AS A RESULT OF YOUR SUPPORT by Sharon Rondeau (May 1, 2020) — The Post & Email recently upgraded its Comments section to include a feature allowing users to edit their submitted comments for up to five minutes. Funds from our fundraiser last December were utilized for the upgrade after we weighed a number of […]
THANK YOU! by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 2, 2019) — Recently several readers made us aware that the pop-up registration form for our daily news alerts at the lower right-hand corner of the website was not working properly. Thanks to last month’s fundraiser, the form is now repaired with a new-and-improved interface. Our subscription service is […]
ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF MYSTERIOUS WEBSITE UNKNOWN by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 27, 2019) — A blog styled “hothealthblog.com” which copied and published our content without permission has been taken down at the request of The Post & Email’s editor. The blog was discovered in a Google search in August and found to be replicating each […]
“THANK YOU TO ALL” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 17, 2019) — It has been a very long time since The Post & Email asked for financial support from its readers, but as we expect some new expenses going into 2020, we could use any support you might be able to provide. Although not absolutely necessary, […]
“DUE DILIGENCE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 6, 2019) — On Sunday morning, reader Robert Laity advised us of a website calling itself “mediabias/factcheck” (MBFC) containing an entry for “The Post and Email” claiming that the website is on the “extreme” and of “right bias,” it does not “source” its information “well,” and that its “factual […]
EDITOR INTENDS TO PURSUE MISDEMEANOR CONVICTION FOR “BAD-FAITH” COMPLAINT by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 4, 2019) — On August 16, 2019, The Post & Email’s editor received a certified letter from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services informing her that she was the subject of a complaint of “mental abuse” of a “vulnerable […]
FROM AUGUST 28, 2009 TO AUGUST 28, 2019…AND INTO THE FUTURE! by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 28, 2019) — On August 28, 2009, Mr. John Charlton launched a WordPress blog called “postnemail” focused solely on the questions surrounding Barack Hussein Obama’s presidential eligibility or lack thereof. The blog instantly became one of the Internet’s “go-to” places […]
AND REPORT ITS OWN PLAGIARISM! by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 16, 2019) — The website, apparently originating in China, which we discovered on Wednesday is plagiarizing all of our work continues to do so even after complaints were filed with GoDaddy, as the domain registrar, and Cloudfare, as a proxy company which pledged to take appropriate […]
DOMAIN REGISTERED WITH GODADDY; ORIGIN REPORTEDLY CHINA by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 15, 2019) — As reported in a comment early Thursday morning by reader Robert Laity, the website “hothealthblog.com,” which appears to be publishing all of our original and editorial work through an automatic feed, posted our article published late Wednesday evening reporting its plagiarism […]
“RACISM” AGAIN INVOKED AGAINST THOSE QUESTIONING CONSTITUTIONAL ELIGIBILITY by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 29, 2019) — The fourth-most-popular trend on Twitter Saturday before 9:00 a.m. EDT was “Birtherism,” a pejorative which refers to questions about the constitutional eligibility of a presidential candidate and is often paired with claims of “racism.” At the top of the Twitter […]
CAN NEW SOCIAL MEDIA BRING BACK FREE SPEECH? by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 14, 2019) — The Post & Email has opened an account at a new social-media site, USA.Life, which was recently launched as an alternative to Facebook to promote freedom of speech. “USA.Life is America’s new social network – the answer to Facebook and […]
BUT NOT “OUT OF THE WOODS” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 26, 2019) — Powerful winds on Monday night knocked out cable service, then electricity, in eastern Connecticut, where The Post & Email is based. The area is heavily-wooded with sparse population as compared to other areas of the state. On Monday morning, a bizarre snow […]