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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.
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%...

Re:Meditation: Why Bother? on Saturday July 03, 2010 @02:35PM (#1484212)
Here is a nice essay by S.N. Goenka titled "The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation" http://www.dhamma.org/en/art.shtml
Re:Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast on Friday June 25, 2010 @05:45PM (#1462286)
Check out Vipassana meditation: http://www.dhamma.org. They offer 10-day residential courses for no charge at centres worldwide.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness? on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @02:08AM (#408584)
Check out Vipassana meditation: http://www.dhamma.org. They offer 10-day residential courses for no charge at centres worldwide.
Re:Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update with lots of bug fixes on Monday December 15, 2008 @05:54PM (#398952)
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/