[Emerging-Sigs] Yahoo Problems

[Matt Jonkman]

haha. Possible. But we've seen these issues for about 2 months now. I
was going in and re-enabling folks accounts by hand, but it's too much
now. EVERY yahoo account that's subscribed gets disabled once a week
when the weekly summary goes out... :)

I applaud their efforts in trying to fight spam, but this isn't
effective. It's killing mail that the users apparently are never
notified about being rejected. And not based on scores or hostile
content, but apparently based on a domain name appearing in the text...

Matt

Jack Pepper wrote:
> Quoting Matt Jonkman <jonkman at jonkmans.com>:
> 
>> If you're not aware, anyone using an @yahoo.com or having their mail
>> hosted by Yahoo isn't getting most of your email from this list, and
>> others. Yahoo has taken some kind of extreme domain name matching
>> measures to reject emails. So when we put out signatures that have the
>> domain name of a spyware package, etc, the emails are rejected by Uahoo
>> and Mailman (the list manager) will put your account into a disabled
>> mode for the bounces assuming your account is invalid.
>>
> 
> Sounds like they are prepping for the merger ....
> 
> 

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