[ih] yahoo is selectively censoring/rejecting incoming emails

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

totally incorrect John -- just like the previous instance here on the IH
list with its filtering/deleting/censoring with any mention of a certain
word that Joe (as list admin) discovered/iteratively debugged (which won't
be mentioned since it might cause this reply to "disappear") we now this at
the SMTP reject-o level for a public webmail provider of not "allowing"
certain subject matters to go through to its user base.

yours truly can axiomatically say with metaphysical certitude this was not
a DMARC failure.

how can yours truly make such an unabashed claim?

because like what Joe did here on the IH list to "discover" the forbidden
word/phase yours truly did similar with yahoo by sending many iterations of
a modified message to yahoo until one finally did not get SMTP reject-o'd
and got through -- thereby revealing exactly/precisely what was "forbidden".

as a side note, Joe has informed yours truly that:

"This post does not appear to be in scope for this list.

Please limit your posts to matters of Internet history in the future.

Joe (list admin)"


this is not the "network" we all "grew up" on/with,

geoff


On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 4:19 PM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> It appears that the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <
> geoff at iconia.com> said:
> >   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ><[xxx]@yahoo.com>
> >    (reason: 554 Message not allowed - [299])
>
> That's probably a DMARC failure.  They've been doing this since about 2014
> so I don't understand
> why you just noticed it now.  It's not personal, but it's quite annoying.
>
> Do keep in mind that Yahoo's goal (actually Apollo Global Management,
> which owns the remains of what used to be Yahoo and AOL) is to accept
> the mail that their users want, reject the mail their users do not
> want, and minimize the number of complaints. They absolutely do not
> care at all about people sending them mail other than the extent to
> which delivering or not delivering the mail causes complaints from
> their users.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>

-- 
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