[Harp-L] Yahoo addresses/Problems

[owner-harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx]

Many Yahoo subscribers to harp-l have recently received a message letting
you now that your account has been suspended for excessive bounces.  The
message includes a link and tells you to click it to reset your account
status.  The excessive bounce message and the link are legitimate and
originate from the harp-l domain.  If you want to continue as a harp-l
subscriber please click the link to reset your account.

Why is this happening?  Yahoo employs a very aggressive anti-spam policy
called grey listing. If Yahoo receives a large volume of mail they
consider to be suspicious from a domain they grey list the domain.  All
incoming e-mails from this domain are delayed and Yahoo sends a message
deferred or delayed message back to the originating server.  From the
harp-l perspective these look like bounces. We tried to send you an e-mail
and it bounced back.  We'll retry a couple of times then move on.  Our
server keeps track of the number of attempts then suspends the account
with the assumption being that either the account on the other end is no
longer valid or there's something wrong at the isp.  That's where we're at
right now.  Yahoo is bouncing pretty much all harp-l traffic back at us. 
Our server counts to 5 then suspends the account.  We wait for an interval
then the account is automatically deleted.  Currently I'm not sure what to
do about this.  The last time this happened we re-set all of the Yahoo
accounts manually until it stopped happening.  We're not going to do that
this time.  It's a lot of work.  Until we get an error message back from
Yahoo which won't happen until the first of the suspended accounts is
deleted we have nothing to go on.

What can you as a subscriber do about any of this?  Write Yahoo and
complain.  Let them know that you want to read about harmonicas and
they're bouncing e-mails that you desire back to the harp-l server.  You
can also switch to a different free e-mail provider.  Operamail, Hotmail,
Gmail, AOL,  it's a long list, This happened previously in February.  It
got better after a week or so.  We have some subscribers who have been
intermittently unsubscribed for years because of Yahoo problems but this
is rare.  Sorry for the inconvenience, it's not anything we're doing.
harp-l-listowner