Warning ATT-Yahoo now blocking cctalk as spam

[Ray Arachelian]

Not to drag this too far off topic, but a few months ago, I received a 
spam via Yahoo, which I promptly reported as spam.  The morons at Yahoo 
decided to block my own SMTP server as well as the spammers, so now I 
can't email folks with @yahoo.com addresses from my machine and need to 
go through gmail.  YMMV, but it's possible the same or a similar thing 
has happened here.

Barry Watzman wrote:
> Re: " I just got off the phone with SBCglobal and discovered that they have
> begun filtering this list as SPAM/Bulk mail. I use a pop3 mail reader and
> have never accessesd their webmail before, so I am sure I never turned any
> filtering on. I was supprised to find that AT&T is no longer able to manage
> their own mail servers and are relying on the Yahhos at yahoo to do it for
> them. After about 30 minutes on the phone with India, I was able to get
> cctalk whitelisted for my account, but not whitelisted in general so others
> using AT&T Yahoo mail servers will likely still have problems."
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> Of course, the people who are not receiving this are also not going to
> receive this explanation of WHY they are not receiving it.
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> But it fails EVERY test for SPAM.
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> First, it's not selling ANYTHING.
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> Second, the recipients REQUESTED to receive it.
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