How to make sure "The Beinghood Times" does NOT end up in your junk folder!
**Whitelist our email address: times@beinghood.com**
Below is information on how to whitelist "The Beinghood Times" so it will turn up in your Inbox every Tuesday & Friday.

**If you find an email from times@beinghood.com in your spam or junk folder, please take that opportunity to tell your mail program that it is not spam by hitting the "not spam", "not junk" or similar button, as that will train your program to whitelist it. 
GMAIL

  1. If you find an email from times@beinghood.com  in your Gmail spam folder, select our email and click the "Not Spam" button
  2. Next, open an email that you have received from us
  3. Click on the little down-pointing-triangle-arrow next to "Reply":
  4. Click "Add Simply Hired to Contacts list"

If you use the new Gmail format:

To make sure that Allen's awesome emails do not disappear into your "Promotions" inbox:
  1. Search for an email from times@beinghood.com 
  2. Click on the email and drag it into you "Primary" folder.
  3. Then you’ll get an alert saying, “This conversation has been moved to “Primary.” Do this for future messages from ......?” And click “YES!”

(PS: If you want to be in control of your own inbox, you can easily disable Gmail's new format:
  1.  Go to the Settings box in the upper right hand corner of your inbox and select "Settings." 
  2. Click on the "Inbox" tab and unselect all categories but "Primary". 
  3. Be sure to save your changes.)
HOTMAIL

To whitelist our address with Hotmail you will need to add times@beinghood.comto your Hotmail Safe List. Here's how:
  1. First, if you find email from us in your Hotmail junk folder, open the email and click "Not Junk"
  2. Next, check to see if if the email address times@beinghood.com is on your Blocked Senders list. If you find times@beinghood.com on your Hotmail blocked senders list, select it and click on the "Remove" button.
  3. Next, open your mailbox and click "Options" in the upper right hand corner
  4. At the top of the page, click on the "Junk E-mail Protection" link
  5. Next, click on "Safe List", which is down near the bottom
  6. Copy and paste times@beinghood.com where it says "Type an address or domain"
  7. Click the "Add" button
APPLE MAIL FOR OS X

  1. First, if email from times@beinghood.com ends up in your junk folder, highlight or open it and click "Not Junk" at the top of your screen.
Then: 
  1. Go to Mail > Preferences from your Mail menu
  2. Go to the Rules tab
  3. Select Add Rule
  4. Give this rule a name such as "Simply Hired"
  5. Create a rule that says "If any of the following conditions are met: 'From' 'Contains'" and then paste in times@beinghood.com
  6. From the actions, select 'Move message' to mailbox 'Inbox'.
  7. Click "OK"
POSTINI

You do not need to whitelist email from Simply Hired in Postini unless you find it trapped in the "Junk" area by Postini.

  1. Log into your Postini account
  2. Look to see if any email from times@beinghood.com is listed in your Junk area
  3. If you find email from times@beinghood.com in the Junk area, check the check box next to the email from times@beinghood.com
  4. Click the "Deliver Selected" link at the very top of the Junk screen
  5. On the next screen, click the "Approve Sender" check box next to the email from times@beinghood.com
  6. Click the "Approve Selected Senders" button
AOL

To add times@beinghood.com to your AOL address book: 
  1. Open an email from us and then click the 'This Is Not Spam' button
  2. Click the Mail menu and select Address Book
  3. Wait for the Address Book window to pop up, then click the 'Add' button
  4. Wait for the Address Card for New Contact window to load
  5. Paste times@beinghood.com into the ‘Other E-Mail’ field
  6. Make our "From" address, timesbeinghood.com, the Primary E-Mail address by checking the appropriate box
  7. Click "Save"
YAHOO! 

To whitelist times@beinghood.com with Yahoo!, you will need to set up a "filter" after first taking the following steps:

  1. If you find email from times@beinghood.com is going to your Yahoo! bulk folder, open it and click "Not Spam"
  2. Be sure that the address times@beinghood.com is not in your "Blocked Addresses" list. If times@beinghood.com is on your "Blocked Addresses" list, select it and click "Remove Block"

Now to create the filter:
  1. Open your mail and click on "Mail Options" in the upper right hand corner
  2. Select 'Filters' (in the bottom left corner)
  3. On the Filters page, click "Add"
  4. Select the "From header:" rule, and add "contains" andnewsletter@beinghood.com, which tells the system to put email with times@beinghood.com in your inbox and not the bulk folder.
  5. Click the "Choose Folder" pull down menu and select 'Inbox'
  6. Pick the Add Filter button
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
  1. On the Tools menu, click Options
  2. On the Preferences tab, click Junk E-mail
  3. On the Safe Senders tab, click Add
  4. Add times@beinghood.com where it says "Add address"
  5. Click OK
THUNDERBIRD 

To whitelist in Thunderbird, you will need to add times@beinghood.com to your address book, and then set up your Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls to whitelist your address book.

  1. First, if you find email from anewsletter@beinghood.com in your Junk folder, right-click on our email and choose "Mark as Not Junk"
  2. Next, click the Address Book button
  3. Highlight the Personal Address Book
  4. Click on "New Card"
  5. In the "Contact" tab of the new card, copy and paste times@beinghood.com to the email dialog box
  6. Click "Ok"
  7. Next, to whitelist your address book, select "Tools > Junk Mail Controls" from the drop down menu
  8. Update the "White Lists" module under the "Settings" tab by selecting "Personal Address Book" from the drop down menu, and then check the box next to "Do not mark messages as junk mail"
  9. Click "Ok"
OTHER
  • Even if your ISP or email program is not listed above, with the above instructions you should be able to figure out how to whitelist our email address at any ISP or with any email program.