[Air-L] admin thread related to e-mail lists and e-mail blocking

[Peter Timusk]

admin thread related to e-mail lists and e-mail blocking

Context I was starting to stop receiving  a lot of e-mail then e-mail lists
told me I was bouncing and eventually I was kicked off one list. That list
was air-l

Sympatico run by Bell Canada contracts it's e-mail out of Microsoft's
hotmail.

Here is an explanation by another list owner about yahoo.

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From: JiscMail Helpline <helpline at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: 11 April 2014 14:53
To: OWNERS-ANNOUNCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [OWNERS-ANNOUNCE] Issue affecting Yahoo email subscribers to lists

OWNERS-ANNOUNCE: You have received this message because you are
registered as an owner of a JiscMail mailing list.
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Yahoo have recently changed the security settings on their email
servers which is causing major issues with mailing list services
across the world, including JiscMail.

Yahoo have changed their security settings in a way that causes emails
sent through a mailing list service to be identified as junk-mail by
email providers that using certain security systems. This causes many
email providers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo themselves, to
reject any list emails originating from a Yahoo account. These
rejections, can in some cases, cause subscribers to be removed from
lists due to the number of rejected messages.

In order to protect our subscribers and our service we have been
advised to stop Yahoo subscribers from posting to *any* JiscMail lists
and we have implemented this change.

Yahoo subscribers will still receive messages from lists.

If a Yahoo subscriber tries to post to your list, the message will be
forwarded to the list owner(s) with this message:
The enclosed message, found in the L-SOFT mailbox and shown under the spool
ID 278571919 in the system log, has  been identified as a possible delivery
Error notice for the  following reason: mail origin is listed  in the "Filter="
List header keyword (or its default value for the L-SOFT list).

Unfortunately this message cannot be edited.

We would also recommend that if you have subscribers on your list
using Yahoo email accounts then we would ask you to:
1. Post a message to your list (or contact them off the list) and pass
on the information from this message.
2. Ask your Yahoo subscribers to re-join your list using a non-Yahoo
email service provider.
3. Ask your Yahoo subscribers to contact Yahoo to complain about the
changes to their security settings.

We are also posting this message to JISCMAIL-NEWSLETTER but are aware
that not all of our subscribers are members of this list, so you may
wish to post this message to your list.

We have stopped email addresses being automatically deleted from lists
- in case Yahoo subscribers have already posted to lists.

More information on this issue can be read here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247512/Yahoo_email_anti_spoofing_policy_breaks_mailing_lists?pageNumber=1