Random Ramblings of a Neo-Post-Modern Geek (I have no idea what that means)
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Report as SPAM
Nov 19th
It’s nice that many of the major mail providers give you the ability to report a message you’ve received as spam … but some of them make it far TOO easy to report something as spam.
I’ve noticed that many of the big names put the “Report as spam” button way too close to the delete button.
Let’s take a look at some of the providers …
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Yahoo SMTP Deferrals
Sep 10th
As I mentioned before … even though I’m participating in Yahoo’s Email Complaint Feedback Loop, I’m still getting deferrals when trying to deliver mail to Yahoo’s mail servers. I’ve gotten a few complaints, but not nearly enough to really justify having mail delivery deferred.
I think I’ve figured out a bit more about why Yahoo’s mail servers are deferring some of the mail my servers try to deliver to them.
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Feedback Loops
Sep 4th
While doing a little searching, I found some information on email feedback loops for other major ISP’s.
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Yahoo Abuse Feedback Loop
May 10th
A few days ago I discovered that Yahoo had created a email abuse feedback loop system.
Based on my experiences with AOL’s feedback system, I really didn’t have high hopes for Yahoo’s efforts … but decided to give it a shot anyways.
I signed up to get abuse reports for midrange.com messages. It took a bit of time to get it all processed, but it’s now in place.
The next day I got my first report of abuse.
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