Yahoo and AOL

Clodfobble · 02-15-2006, 08:35 PM

I know there was a discussion a couple of days ago about Yahoo and AOL's plan to start charging "companies" who send out large amounts of email a "nominal" fee for "priority" delivery... but I can't find it.

I'm not certain this is related, but it seemed damn fishy to me.

I have a yahoo email address (three, actually, for different purposes, but that's beside the point.) My mother-in-law is fond of sending e-cards, a practice that I despise but she's my mother-in-law, what am I going to do, right? That's why she gets to use the spam email address.

So she recently tried to send out Valentine's Day cards to her usual spate of ungrateful recipients... and all of the yahoo email addresses came back as undeliverable. As I am also this woman's usual avenue for tech support, subsequent examination showed that all normal email traffic was getting to me and the other yahoo users, only her stupid e-cards were being blocked.

I don't know whether to be worried or thrilled.

Rock Steady · 02-15-2006, 11:16 PM

I know exactly what you are talking about with other people's abuse of telling companies my email address. Thus, I have 5 email accounts, only one of which is free (yahoo), for various levels of being a customer and one for private only.

Actually, this email bouncing is a good time to tell our mother-in-laws to stop giving out our email addresses and we don't like e-cards. We still don't tell our private email addys to them, but at least they see that this is a problem.

I think you should be thrilled.

Thanks for posting about this. It reminds me that I need to close some of the older spam-toilet accounts and shift legitimate customer relationships to a less spammed email addy.

SteveDallas · 02-16-2006, 01:12 AM

Well there are different ways to handle spam and one technique is to reject all email from servers that you're convinced are just flat out evil. And if Yahoo! has decided that that includes the site your MIL sent her ecards from, there's not a lot you or her can do about it.

Worried or thrilled? It's probably par for the course at the moment. It probably doesn't foretell either a paradise of obnoxious mail being filtered, or a disaster where none of your email comes through.

02-15-2006, 08:35 PM	#1
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Yahoo and AOL I know there was a discussion a couple of days ago about Yahoo and AOL's plan to start charging "companies" who send out large amounts of email a "nominal" fee for "priority" delivery... but I can't find it. I'm not certain this is related, but it seemed damn fishy to me. I have a yahoo email address (three, actually, for different purposes, but that's beside the point.) My mother-in-law is fond of sending e-cards, a practice that I despise but she's my mother-in-law, what am I going to do, right? That's why she gets to use the spam email address. So she recently tried to send out Valentine's Day cards to her usual spate of ungrateful recipients... and all of the yahoo email addresses came back as undeliverable. As I am also this woman's usual avenue for tech support, subsequent examination showed that all normal email traffic was getting to me and the other yahoo users, only her stupid e-cards were being blocked. I don't know whether to be worried or thrilled.

02-15-2006, 11:16 PM	#2
Rock Steady Day Tripper Join Date: May 2005 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 784	I know exactly what you are talking about with other people's abuse of telling companies my email address. Thus, I have 5 email accounts, only one of which is free (yahoo), for various levels of being a customer and one for private only. Actually, this email bouncing is a good time to tell our mother-in-laws to stop giving out our email addresses and we don't like e-cards. We still don't tell our private email addys to them, but at least they see that this is a problem. I think you should be thrilled. Thanks for posting about this. It reminds me that I need to close some of the older spam-toilet accounts and shift legitimate customer relationships to a less spammed email addy. __________________

02-16-2006, 01:12 AM	#3
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Well there are different ways to handle spam and one technique is to reject all email from servers that you're convinced are just flat out evil. And if Yahoo! has decided that that includes the site your MIL sent her ecards from, there's not a lot you or her can do about it. Worried or thrilled? It's probably par for the course at the moment. It probably doesn't foretell either a paradise of obnoxious mail being filtered, or a disaster where none of your email comes through.

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