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Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?

  • From: Patrick Giagnocavo
  • Date: Thu Apr 10 19:26:52 2008

Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:30:06PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
Is it just us or are there general problems with sending email to
yahoo in the past few weeks? 

It's not you.  Lots of people are seeing this, as Yahoo's mail servers
are apparently too busy sending ever-increasing quantities of spam to
have to accept inbound traffic.  Sufficiently persistent and lucky
people have sometimes managed to penetrate the outer clue-resistant
shells of Yahoo and effect changes, but some of those seem ineffective
and temporary.  There doesn't seem to be any simple, universal fix for
this other than advising people that Yahoo's email service is already
miserable and continues to deteriorate, and hoping that they migrate
elsewhere.

---Rsk


The only thing that might cause them to change would be a combination of various ISPs pushing people to switch to e.g. GMail, and in enough numbers that Yahoo! noticed the falloff in ad revenue. Unless it costs them money it is unlikely that they will do anything about it.

--Patrick