[mdlug] Stupid yahoo.

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:51:28 -0400
Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Carl T. Miller wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Lately we've seen a lot of messages getting bounced and
> > people having their email suspended because their mail
> > servers rejected too many messages.
> >
> > After doing some digging, I found that the problem is
> > that Yahoo changed their policy unexpectedly, even though
> > they know that it breaks most mailing lists.  Ouch.
> >
> > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN7253.html
> >
> > The bottom line...for now, please do not send email to
> > any of the mdlug mailing lists from a yahoo.com address.
> > If you do not have another email address, you can always
> > send email to carl at carltm.com and I will forward it to
> > the list on your behalf.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.  Also, if you received a
> > message recently saying that your mdlug email has been
> > suspended, I put in a manual override that unsuspended
> > your account.   The fact that you received this message
> > is proof that you still get all your email from the list.
> >
> 
> Yahoo sucks anyways.  They won't give you POP access without paying
> for it, and don't offer IMAP at all (and IMAP is what you want).
> 
> Gmail  gives both POP and IMAP access for free.
> 

As does AOL

-- 
Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
<petertheplumber at att.net>