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Yahoo email addresses

To: Sonja Ross <>
Subject: Yahoo email addresses
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:59:55 +1000
I found some suggestions for how to do it here, but I haven't tried it yet:
http://m.wikihow.com/Contact-Yahoo

I don't know how old that page is, and whether the methods still work.

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

> On 13 Apr 2014, at 1:12 pm, "Sonja Ross" <> wrote:
> 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Thanks for letting us know about this.
> 
> I have a Yahoo account which I use as my main one, and I would send feedback 
> to Yahoo as it would be very inconvenient, but how does one do this?  Getting 
> touch with free services doesn't seem to be easy!
> 
> Sonja
> 
> 
>> On 13/04/2014, at 1:02 PM, Russell Woodford <> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Yahoo have recently made some under-the-hood changes to its email service. 
>> Essentially, it is telling OTHER email servers to reject messages from Yahoo 
>> accounts if the sending mail server is not Yahoo. 
>> 
>> What this potentially means is that if someone sends a message to 
>> Birding-Aus from a Yahoo account, all other mail servers will be told to 
>> reject the message because it comes from birding-aus.org and not Yahoo.com. 
>> Eventually this might mean that many of those incoming mail servers will 
>> block birding-aus.org and finally that address will get blacklisted right 
>> across the internet. 
>> 
>> Experts in the mailing list world have responded with some concern that this 
>> move by Yahoo may render mailing lists inoperable. 
>> 
>> We will wait to see what happens. Yahoo have broken an internet standard by 
>> doing this so they may relent. Or they may say they are big enough to ignore 
>> accepted internet policy. If they do this then we may have to block Yahoo 
>> accounts from send messages to birding-aus - this may happen with most 
>> lists. I'd suggest Yahoo account holders send feedback to Yahoo. Or get 
>> another we mail address. 
>> 
>> Regards 
>> 
>> Russell Woodford
>> birding-aus owner
>> 
>> 
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