From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from dmccunney:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? > Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It > already owned AOL. It has informed Verizon email users that Verizon > will no longer provide email services, and that they should create and > switch to an AOL account for email. > I do not expect them to maintain Yahoo email too, and I'll be more > than a bit surprised if Yahoo Groups still exist after the dust > settles. > Note as well that if you post to a list like this from an AOL or Yahoo > account, it is likely to be classified as spam. AOL and Yahoo had a > problem - both had been hacked, there were oodles of AOL and Yahoo > addresses available for forgery, and it's trivial to change the From: > header in email. Massive amounts of spam were emanating from forged > AOL and Yahoo addresses. To combat the problem, both turned on > provisions of the DKIP specifications. One required that all email > from AOL and Yahoo accounts be digitally signed to prove it was from > who it claimed to be from. Another required that the email not be > *changed* in transit. > This *broke* mailing lists, as the list software must modify the email > headers as part of what it does. The changes are noted in the > modified headers, and what happens next depends on the recipient's > email server. Some simply discard the list mail undelivered as spam. > Others accept delivery, but mark it spam, and it doesn't appear in the > recipient's Inbox. (GMail does that. Gregg Eshelman posts from a > Yahoo account, and every one of his messages to the FreeDOS list gets > labeled spam here and must be reclassified.) > Folks complained, and AOL and Yahoo's response was essentially "Don't > use mailing lists. Use web forums like we provide." > If you post from an AOL or Yahoo address, you have three choices: > Don't participate in mailing lists > Participate, but be aware not everyone may see your posts > Find a different email provider > Dennis > Who hates to be the bearer of bad news, but... > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 I have some @bellsouth.net inboxes/accounts from my days with bellsouth.net . I also have an AOL free email account. So I wonder how these will be affected. For a time, about three weeks, POP3 download from bellsouth.net account was very slow, and only one or two at a time. That made me switch three mailing list subscriptions to twc.com . There is also a freemail service at gmx.net as well as premium, paying email account options. Yahoo has been using an annoying CAPTCHA to get access to webmail or even online help, with letters/numbers that didn't stay still but swam around, so I couldn't solve the CAPTCHA. And AT&T has the gall to send advertising for their Internet service (DIRECTV or Uverse). Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
