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Yahoo Spam Problems

#1

A vpFREE member went on the "bounce list" yesterday because:

"Remote host said: 553 5.3.0 Mail from 66.218.66.87 rejected,see
http://www.spews.org"

Spews is an anti spam list that many ISP's use to filter incoming
Email. They fight an ongoing battle with Yahoo (and other internet
providers) to get Yahoo and the others to rid themselves of spammers.
This is a difficult problem for the Yahoos of the world, because
spammers come and go and are difficult to control.

Spews has recently gotten much tougher with Yahoo and now have them
on their "blocked" list. This also affects Yahoo Groups (who sends
out vpFREE mail) although Yahoo Groups doesn't have spammer clients.
If your ISP uses Spews (or other similar services) they may be
bouncing messages from Yahoo Groups now.

If your mail from Yahoo Groups bounces, you should contact your ISP,
tell them that Yahoo Groups (as opposed to Yahoo) doesn't spam and
that you want to receive Yahoo Groups Email. Your ISP can "white
list" Yahoo Groups Email or put it on "warn" status, and Email will
go through. You may have to be firm with your ISP, and insist that
they allow Yahoo Group Email to go through.

vpFREE Administrator

#2

The Yahoo Moderator's Group reports that many IP's are
trying to convince Yahoo to stop selling Email addresses
to spammers, and are now blocking many/most Yahoo and
Yahoo Group messages.

If you're not getting any/all vpFREE Emails, you can always
read messages on the vpFREE website, until things get
straightened out.

vpFREE Administrator

#3

Why did you take off the link to the homepage that used to appear with
every post? That was an easy way to quickly get to the board.
Scot

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-----Original Message-----
From: vp_FREE [mailto:vpF…@…com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:41 PM
To: vpFREE
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Yahoo Spam Problems

The Yahoo Moderator's Group reports that many IP's are
trying to convince Yahoo to stop selling Email addresses
to spammers, and are now blocking many/most Yahoo and
Yahoo Group messages.

If you're not getting any/all vpFREE Emails, you can always
read messages on the vpFREE website, until things get
straightened out.

vpFREE Administrator

vpFREE Links:
http://www.lvcm.com/tomesims/VP/Links.html

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

#4

If you're not getting any/all vpFREE Emails, you can always
read messages on the vpFREE website, until things get
straightened out.

On 1 Apr 2003 at 0:07, Scot Krause replied:

Why did you take off the link to the homepage that used to appear with
every post? That was an easy way to quickly get to the board. Scot

I replaced it with "vpFREE Links" which includes the vpFREE
Home Page as one of its Links.

I believe that it's desireable to have as little clutter as possible
on the individual Emails, and that vpFREE Links is a better
inclusion than the Home Page. If five or more members
Email me privately that they would like to have the vpFREE
Home Page on individual Emails, I'll put it back on.

vpFREE Administrator