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RE: contact at yahoo mail? (they think we're an open relay :< )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Thu Oct 9 22:27:51 2003

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310091830070.15374@r2d2.easydns.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:25:45 -0400
To: Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: Thor Larholm <thor@pivx.com>, nanog@merit.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 6:34 PM -0400 10/9/03, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
>So that, combined with the number of "same here" posts wrt yahoo
>lead me to believe that that's not the reason.

I have seen yahoo block based on excessive mail sent to non-existent 
addresses.  If you are bouncing mail with a return-path set to yahoo, 
that can be a problem.

-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/         Next Generation Spam Defense
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/  Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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