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

[Stefan li Rous]

Here is the explanation that has been going around other lists:

> From: Mark Schuldenfrei <mark at SCHULDY.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [CALONTIR] Fwd: CALONTIR: error report from YAHOO.COM
> Date: April 15, 2014 7:56:28 PM CDT
> To: CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu
> Reply-To: Historical Recreation in the Kingdom of Calontir <CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu>
> 
> One more time....
> 
> Yahoo is part of a consortium that is trying to adopt a new
> email security procedure.  Some other companies are too.
> That new security procedure rejects mail from most mailing
> lists, treating it as a forgery/spam. (Wanna know why? Look
> up DMARC and Yahoo.)
> 
> Yahoo turned on that feature last week: many web sites are
> now treating emails from those mailing lists as SPAM,
> marking the mailing list as SPAM.  This happens whenever
> a person with a Yahoo mailing address posts to that list.
> 
> Yahoo thinks it can drag the Internet into their new
> security procedure.  I suggest that people now pretty
> much HAVE to dump Yahoo email addresses instead. Because
> most mailing lists are turning Yahoo addresses into "readers
> only".
> 
> I think Yahoo gambled and messed up.
> 
> 	Tibor
> 
> On 4/15/2014 6:32 PM, Boris Nemtsov wrote:
>> All inbound email from Yahoo is being filtered out, I get an error
>> message but the sender is not notified and the list gets nothing.  Yahoo
>> subscribers should still be receiving messages but they  cannot send.

The best solution, until Yahoo decides to conform to the standards, is that if you have a yahoo account to cancel that account and create a new one on another service.

Stefan

On Apr 16, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Charlene C <charlene281 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the link. I'd noticed that Yahoo addresses to various lists
> I'm on (SCA and non-SCA) were getting caught in the Gmail spam folder.
> 
> --Perronnelle
> 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Alasdair MacEogan
> <alasdair at bmhanson.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2014 5:08 PM, "Emma de Fetherstan" <serveradmin at ansteorra.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The people so affected are those whose mail is ultimately handled by
>>> yahoo.com. This includes att.net and sbcglobal.net, but also affected
>>> hotmail.com and msn.com email addresses as well. For whatever reason,
>> those
>>> domains started refusing all incoming mail from our mailing lists.
>> 
>> Likely part of this fiasco.
>> 
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141120/yahoo-email-antispoofing-policy-breaks-mailing-lists.html
>> 
>> Alasdair

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