[PSUBS-MAILIST] Failed Delivery

[Personal Submersibles General Discussion]

To all YAHOO users
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I've cleared the "bounce" database again so please disregard the message 
about disabling your account if more bounces occur.  The problem is spam 
control that yahoo has recently implemented which requires that email 
sent to you, from you, actually came from you. So let me explain.  
xyz at yahoo.com sends a message to our mailing list and the list software 
rewrites the headers so it can forward that mail to everyone on the list 
including xyz at yahoo.com.  You will note in the past the "FROM:" address 
would have the senders email address, in this example "xyz at yahoo.com" 
when actually the email came from the psubs.org mailing list software.  
This is normal for mailing lists but yahoo doesn't permit it anymore in 
favor of reducing spam.  Yahoo now checks to see if mail "From: 
xyz at yahoo.com" actually came from yahoo.com, and admits that this tactic 
breaks a lot of existing mailing list practices.

I have temporarily changed the software to rewrite the FROM header as 
personal_submersibles at psubs.org instead of the actual sender of the 
email.  This is not ideal since it hides the original authors identity 
and makes it virtually impossible for the receiver to identify who's in 
the discussion unless they absolutely include their name in the body of 
the message.  We'll use this method temporarily to get past the 
immediate yahoo rejections that people are seeing but I think it's not 
going to be something we want to keep implemented long term.  Those of 
us with yahoo accounts may have to just move over to google.

Jon