Yahoo and Latin
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:44:58 PST)

For the record, we don't really know why people who have Yahoo email
accounts have messages that are bouncing. It may have nothing to do with
specific words in the message. With the huge amount of spam that is
clogging the Internet, providers are always trying to find ways of
eliminating it before it gets delivered. These methods have to be
continually upgraded as the spammers find new ways of getting around them.
Not all of the Yahoo accounts were disabled. Administrators only get
notices of bounces after the bounce score reaches 5 which means we have no
idea whether people on this list are getting all of the messages until they
have missed quite a few.

The message we got as the reason for the bounce that triggered the
subscribers who were disabled was that there had been a complaint and that
messages were temporarily blocked. It was a canned message so I'm not sure
what it meant. Complaints by who and for what was not clear. In the past
when we were on mcn.org I got a notice of all of the bounces. Yahoo had
more bounces that some of the other providers but I don't know if that is
still true.

When Comcast rejected all the pbs list messages we later found out that
Comcast was rejecting everything from ibiblio.org since one person on
another list had complained that he or she was not unsubscribed from a list
after requesting this to happen. PBS subscribers who contacted Comcast
asking to get the pbs list messages were given different solutions by the
different support members they talked to.

I've looked at some of the Yahoo subscribers since all of this happened and
there have been a few bounces since, but obviously some of the mail is
getting through. So it does not seem that all message are being blocked so
I think that each subscriber who is having a problem probably needs to
contact their ISP provider for help.

Mary Sue