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Larry Underhill noted: > I run a server off my comcast drop at home. I haven't had any problems > sending mail. If you have a yahoo account address, I'll throw off a test > mail to see what happens. I *think* one other aspect of this issue is how many recipients get a given copy of a message. It's vexing because I can't come up with a complete list of all dropped emails--they fall into a black hole, or maybe someone will report that my message got put into their "Bulk mail" folder. I just don't have good data so that's why I'm asking y'all to keep on a lookout for discarded messages sent to Yahoo mail recipients. From now on I definitely plan to ask correspondents to supply me with a different address if they can; a boycott of Yahoo's free email service seems to me in order if their service is flaky. Testing point-to-point to my own Yahoo.com address hasn't demonstrated anything; I get 100% reliable transfers whenever I try. Searching Yahoo's website for any information at all about their proprietary bulk-mail prioritization rules, of course, comes up with nada. But I suspect that if you send a party invitation to 30 or more recipients, 15% of whom are using Yahoo mail, there's a good chance that at least one recipient won't get the message. Multiple copies of a message, even an innocuous one, could we find themselves tagged as spam. Not sure how to test this. -rich
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