Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Its been a few times I get email from “AmazingFreeStuff1366moderator” with the subject titled, “Yahoo! Groups: You’re invited! Join Amazing Freestuff 1366 today” and today was the first time I clicked on “join group” then it takes me to another screen saying the group doesn’t exist!

Is there anyone on yahoo that can stop this, because it does give the impression that it’s from a yahoo moderator of some sort? Or is my ONLY choice to block the sender from all communication or lable it as SPAM?!?
I really didn’t ask how to block anyone or how to mark a email as spam, because I already know how to do that and I wrote I did.

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I have a user who received email today from an outside source. The time stamp it was sent is dated 03/15 and it was received by the user on 03/18. The user is always on email and no other message has been hung up.

We are running Exchange 2007 with an offsite spam filter service that hasn’t slowed/stopped any other legit email. There was an attached .zip file that is roughly 3 MBs, so no biggie there. I’ve just never heard of email taking days to send.
I had the user forward me the email. Unfortunately, the headers are only showing the message route within the company. I’m going over to his station in a bit to see if there’s more info. I’ll write a followup.

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Some time ago my political party, The PVP, had a problem with sending mail from our shared-hosting domain to Yahoo! addresses. It turned out that we had been arbitrarily blocked by Yahoo!’s membership of an anti-spam “club” operated by an American firm called Barracudacentral working in partnership with Emailreg.com – also American.

As you might imagine we contacted Barracudacentral and, after a – let’s say animated – discussion were removed from the block list without having to stump up the $20 fee that was being demanded by Emailreg.com. We’re pretty sure that copying them into our email complaint to the American Embassy was instrumental in gaining their co-operation.

Now we’re being blocked again, this time by Yahoo! themselves and we are getting repeated 421 error codes which Yahoo! says is because they have either seen unusual traffic from a domain or because of complaints from users. Neither Barracudacentral nor Emailreg are involved this time as far as we can determine. I’ve checked Spam Haus and Spam Cop and found that we do not appear on any block lists.

The PVP does not, as a matter of basic policy, spam anyone and the main correspondence has so far, because we are only a very new party, been between myself and the party’s founder at his home email address. So, either we have been the subject of a malicious complaint by a rival political party or Yahoo! has taken it upon itself to decide that we are a spam risk. Either way up, our attempts so far to get any kind of meaningful response from Yahoo! have been fruitless.

Is anyone else out there, who uses shared hosting, getting the “421″ problem from Yahoo!? If so, The PVP has decided that the practice of arbitrary domain blocking is unacceptable in a world where communication is key to the democratic process and we intend to take the matter to Parliament as a formal representation. As far as we are concerned, getting rid of spam should be the responsibility of the end-user, which is why the likes of Yahoo! and their ilk provide spam boxes in the first place. Are they, then, saying that these end-user features do not actually work?

If you have the Yahoo! 421 problem and are ready to take action to get it stopped please get in touch with me.

Thank you.
Emails are going to the party founder on the users BTinternet account and they are run by Yahoo who are blocking legitmate emails but the party fonder is flooded with SPAM…

If people do not understand that this is a request for people who are being blocked to get in touch, please not that your replies will swamp people who want Y! to stop blocking legit email accounts.

It is what the SPAM box is for at the end of the day is it not?
RE: Oh! The 421 error, that means that somebody else may be logged into your account.

It has nothing to do with what your post suggests.

All you need to do is seardh for Yahoo 421 errors and you will find…

421 Message temporarily deferred – [numeric code]

If you are seeing the error “421 Message temporarily deferred – [numeric code]“, where “[numeric code]” shows a specific diagnostic code (e.g., “4.16.51″, “4.16.52″) in your SMTP logs, this indicates that:
the message you attempted to send exhibited characteristics indicative of spam,and/or
emails from your network have been generating complaints from Yahoo! Mail users.

which is a complete and utter lie.

EMAIL – I will repeate – EMAIL is only going to one user, the party founder. THAT is not spam.

UNLESS You are experiencing issues with Yahoo, please do not answer and “Political” side of things, were not asking people to “Get” involved but to stand up to yahoo bullying.

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I am tired of opening my email and finding 10 or12 undisclosed-recipients listed

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