Yahoo email addresses
By Birding-Aus, on April 13th, 2014
Hi all Yahoo have recently made some under-the-hood changes to its email service. Essentially, it is telling OTHER email servers to reject messages from Yahoo accounts if the sending mail server is not Yahoo. What this potentially means is that if someone sends a message to Birding-Aus from a Yahoo account, all other mail servers will be told to reject the message because it comes from birding-aus.org and not Yahoo.com. Eventually this might mean that many of those incoming mail servers will block birding-aus.org and finally that address will get blacklisted right across the internet. Experts in the mailing list world have responded with some concern that this move by Yahoo may render mailing lists inoperable. We will wait to see what happens. Yahoo have broken an internet standard by doing this so they may relent. Or they may say they are big enough to ignore accepted internet policy. If they do this then we may have to block Yahoo accounts from send messages to birding-aus – this may happen with most lists. I’d suggest Yahoo account holders send feedback to Yahoo. Or get another we mail address. Regards Russell Woodford birding-aus owner Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Helen – it is a good idea to change passwords if the sites you were using were compromised and have fixed the problem (Yahoo I believe was one of them). It is no good however changing passwords on a compromised site if the problem is not fixed as your new password is then also at risk. There are various sites you can google which claim to show sites which are at risk – I guess all the major ones are fixed now. On 15 April 2014 10:55, Helen Larson < gobywan2001@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Have now got an outlook account going for birding-aus, so messages from me will appear as fregatahkl@outlook.com – will be deleting this yahoo account as soon as I have checked it’s not linked to anything else. Outlook webmail seems very good and easy to organise. I also spent some time changing a bunch of passwords after a IT-nerdy friend advised it was a good idea due to the heartbleed bug (he also said it may not do any good but anything helps). Helen < ')//////==< On Monday, 14 April 2014, 11:18, Russell Woodford <rdwoodford@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Helen We’re hoping the other webmail superpowers don’t follow suit – it will quickly bring about the death of mailing lists if that’s the case. As for your personal archive, if it is on webmail, then it’s just as easy to search our own archive. It has ALL messages, and it is a very useful resource. I’m about to use it to find where to go birding while I am in KL! Kind regards Russell On 13 April 2014 14:19, Helen Larson < gobywan2001@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: thanks Russell, and whether the methods still work. responded with some concern that this move by Yahoo may render mailing lists inoperable. _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Hi Russ, If this little trick of Yahoo is publicised enough and sufficient people drop them as an email provider, they may relent. I dropped them years ago as an email provider and a search engine. Sure don’t miss them. Car Clifford _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
I found some suggestions for how to do it here, but I haven’t tried it yet: http://m.wikihow.com/Contact-Yahoo I don’t know how old that page is, and whether the methods still work. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Hi Russell, Thanks for letting us know about this. I have a Yahoo account which I use as my main one, and I would send feedback to Yahoo as it would be very inconvenient, but how does one do this? Getting touch with free services doesn’t seem to be easy! Sonja On 13/04/2014, at 1:02 PM, Russell Woodford < rdwoodford@gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org