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Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Thu Apr 10 16:55:05 2008

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:17:08 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47FE5B1C.7060506@axint.net>; from Chris Stone on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:23:24PM -0600
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:23:24PM -0600, Chris Stone wrote:
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> Matt Baldwin wrote:
> > mostly.  It feels like a poorly implemented spam prevention system.
> > Doing some Google searches will turn up some more background on the
> > issue.  We've been telling our users that Yahoo mail is problematic
> > and if they can to switch away from using them as their private email
> > or hosted email.
> 
> Maybe we all should do the same to them until they quit spewing out all the
> Nigerian scams and the like that I've been seeing from their servers lately!

Naaah.  I hear that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo!, so this problem will
go away once Yahoo! mail gets folded into Microsoft hotmail, whereupon
things will get soooooo much better!


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