[NEohioPAL] MORE about the Yahoo email craziness that happened over the weekend...

[Fred Sternfeld]

*Hi Everybody,*

*Around 1,600 Neohiopal subscribers got a message that seemed like spam
about "bounces" and needing to "re-enable" their subscription.  I received
around 20 inquiries from individuals asking if this was legitimate. *

*This bounce action from the software and message was caused by a change
(which I sent out earlier today and is copied below) in Yahoo's policy. *

*The bottom line is that if you received a message similar to the one
marked in red below you don't need to do anything about it. Conrad Yoder
(Neohiopal webmaster), Noah Budin (assistant administrator) and I fixed
each account. *

*Subject:* confirm cecd063ed345500d83b7904951a271a7f5d1d19b

Your membership in the mailing list NEohioPAL has been disabled due to
excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
12-Apr-2014.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 1003 more reminders
like this before your membership in the list is deleted.

To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message
(leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation page at


http://lists.neohiopal.org/confirm.cgi/neohiopal-neohiopal.org/cecd063eddab500d83b79049513451a7f5d1d19b

You can also visit your membership page at


http://lists.neohiopal.org/options.cgi/neohiopal-neohiopal.org/xxxxxxxxxx%40ameritech.net

On your membership page, you can change various delivery options such
as your email address and whether you get digests or not.  As a
reminder, your membership password is

    xyd038dk3l

If you have any questions or problems, you can contact the list owner
at

    neohiopal-owner at lists.neohiopal.org


*The only action you need to take is what is copied and pasted below:*

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*Dear Subscribers,*

*Yahoo has made some changes to their mail server policies, and the short
story is Yahoo and Y-hosted domains (sbcglobal.net
<http://sbcglobal.net/>, att.net <http://att.net/>, ymail.com
<http://ymail.com/>, prodigy.net <http://prodigy.net/>, ameritech.net
<http://ameritech.net/>, bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net/>) cannot post
to the list any more. BUT, they can still receive.  *





*The slightly longer story is that Yahoo changed their server policies so
that it makes it harder to send anonymous spam, but breaks almost all
mailing list software on the internet. They knew this would happen and they
have no real alternative suggestion.  They did this without any real
warning (a few days) and they aren’t going back.  If Yahoo email addresses
are allowed to post, it will cause other email addresses on the list to be
disabled and/or unsubscribed, and that can’t be allowed to happen. If you
use one of the domains above and want to post, you should get another email
account with a free service such as Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, iCloud or AOL,
subscribe and post with that.   If you want even more gory technical
details you can google “yahoo dmarc."*





-- 
Fred Sternfeld
Neohiopal Ltd. Owner and Administrator
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