[103689] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond L. Corbin)
Thu Apr 10 18:01:14 2008
From: "Raymond L. Corbin" <rcorbin@hostmysite.com>
To: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:04:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20080410161708.C1133@AegisInfoSys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I hope that's sarcasm? Instead of getting the bounces your messages will si=
mply go missing after they accepted it...or you will get bounces sent to yo=
u a few years after you sent the message...(happened to a client yesterday.=
..).
-Ray
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Hen=
ry Yen
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:17 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?
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 t=
he
> Nigerian scams and the like that I've been seeing from their servers late=
ly!
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!
