> I guess Yahoo is treating PLUG as spam. Apparently, so is gmail... (and maybe for similar or "analogous" reasons.) I use gmail [since circa late 2005] and I found this message in my "Junk mail" (or 'spam') folder, there on gmail. I don't keep up with (reading) PLUG-DISCUSS as often as I used to ... but any time I want to, if I really do want to read it, then (no matter) even if the robots are starting to categorize messages like this as "junk" mail -- (a "false positive", IMHO) -- I could always go read the messages on the archive, on the server. > Obviously this message won't reach the people who are being dropped from the list, but [...] I don't think I've been "dropped from the list" [yet], .. but, thanks for the HEADS-UP! :-) ! Just my 0.02 ... YMMV ... PS: Regards to many of my old friends -- (whom I probably have not seen / e-mailed, in a long time) -- ... from -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:46 PM, keith smith wrote: > I have a Yahoo email account and I got this several hours ago. > > Your membership in the mailing list PLUG-discuss has been disabled due > to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated > 12-Apr-2014. You will not get any more messages from this list until > you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders like > this before your membership in the list is deleted. > > I guess Yahoo is treating PLUG as spam. > > The newsletter folks like iContact are having to deal with Yahoo, Gmail, > HotMail..... etc bouncing emails if the recipient does not open a certain > number of emails they signed up to get. Must be a profit thing. > > I do not read every plug post so maybe that is what happened to me. > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:56 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > Thanks to some changes at yahoo, people that were subscribed to the plug > mailing lists and probably wanted to continue to receive PLUG email are > dropping off the list like flies due to their messages from the list > being rejected. > > Obviously this message won't reach the people who are being dropped from > the list, but if anyone runs into someone that says that haven't been > getting new emails, you can tell them that they need to switch providers > because yahoo and any other domain that is hosted by yahoo will no > longer accept plug emails. > > I'll try to archive the bounce notifications and if yahoo changes their > policy, I'll manually resubscribe anyone that gets dropped. Until then > we have to assume that this change is permanent. > > Brian Cluff > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >