[Ansteorra] What exactly are "bounces" on the list

[Emma de Fetherstan]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>
wrote:
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> Likely part of this fiasco.
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>
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141120/yahoo-email-antispoofing-policy-breaks-mailing-lists.html

Ewwww.... yeah, I bet that's definitely it.

Huh.  Interesting. And...broken.

So apparently this will affect our mailing lists in two ways:

1) mail from someone at a yahoo.com-handled domain sent to a mailing list
may CAUSE a bounce when the mailing list tries to send mail TO someone with
a yahoo.com-handled email address. Enough bounces, and you're
auto-unsubscribed.

2) mail from someone at a yahoo.com-handled domain sent to a mailing list
may wind up in the spam filter of people with gmail.com accounts.
(Hopefully gmail's spam filter will eventually train itself to not mark
those as spam, but until then, check it once a week!)

To counter #1, I have tweaked the bounce processing numbers for the
ansteorra and ansteorra-announce mailing lists. List owners of other lists
that got a ton of auto-unsubscribes lately can let me know and I'll do the
same tweak for them (and/or explain what I did). Let's hope that solves the
issue for the majority of folks!

-Emma