For the time being, please can anyone who has subscribed with a Yahoo address refrain from posting to this list. I don't want to formalise this by banning Yahoo users (or removing their posting rights) but Yahoo has forced this situation and I'm hoping they'll back down before this has to become permanent.
The short version of what they've done is that their new anti-spam settings require that email from yahoo addresses originates on their servers (which sounds reasonable, except that's not how mailing lists work or have ever worked - the list posts messages out on your behalf retaining your address so that it's clear who sent the original message). Furthermore their settings require that other mail providers that follow similar standards block any mail that breaks these rules. This means that if you send mail to this list, anyone with an account at a widely used provider (Yahoo, Google, etc) will reject your mail. The list software will detect these rejections, assume that the addresses are no longer valid and unsubscribe them. Ie the Yahoo user's mail won't be seen, but it's other users (themselves included) who will get unsubscribed, If you use a Yahoo email account for this list the only sensible solution is to ditch it and get a new account elsewhere, Whether Yahoo will fix this is anybody's guess. If you are a Yahoo user who wishes to comment on this thread please email me off list and I'll forward to the list. If you wish to comment to me offlist and not have it forwarded to the list please make that clear in your email. For background see here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/yahoo_breaks_every_mailing_list_in_the_world_says_email_guru/ -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
