From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yahoo problem
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> <https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN24016.html?impressions=true>

> Yahoo did a *really* stupid thing, to "protect" their users from
> spam.  It *is*, in fact, all Yahoo's fault.

I found a PCWorld article about it:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141120/yahoo-email-antispoofing-policy-breaks-mailing-lists.html

It says, in part:

 The email expert recommended that mailing list operators suspend the
 list posting rights of yahoo.com users and ask them to re-subscribe
 to their lists with accounts from different email providers.

Yahoo claims this is to block spam, but its real purpose appears to be
to break all non-Yahoo mailing lists for Yahoo users, forcing them to
use nothing but Yahoo's own ad-supported Yahoogroups.  If Yahoo gets
away with this, others will likely soon follow, and gmail users will
only be able to use Google Groups, Facebook users will only be able to
communicate via Facebook, AOL users will have to retreat to AOL forums,
etc., and the net will fragment into dozens of incompatible pieces.

If you're a Yahoo user and you agree with Mark and I that this would
be a bad thing, please tell Yahoo that you'll close your account if
this isn't rescinded within a week.  And then follow through.  Please
tell them via paper mail addressed to their CEO:

  Marissa Mayer, CEO
  Yahoo!, Inc.
  701 First Avenue
  Sunnyvale, CA 94089

I won't be suspending anyone's posting rights, but please be aware
that unless Yahoo undoes this, your posts from Yahoo will not be seen
by Yahoo, Comcast, and MSN users, and possibly others (unless they
read posts from the archives, which are often weeks behind).  Please
post only from a non-Yahoo account if possible.