Hi Russ,
If this little trick of Yahoo is publicised enough and sufficient people drop
them as an email provider, they may relent. I dropped them years ago as an
email provider and a search engine. Sure don't miss them.
Car Clifford
> On 13 Apr 2014, at 13:02, 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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