UV-Birders:
As of last Friday, the problem I described a couple of weeks ago has been resolved. Peach.Ease software has released a fix which has been installed at ListServ.dartmouth.edu.
The affected users included anyone with an e-mail address at:
Yahoo.com
Hotmail.com
Comcast.net
MSN.com
Some other addresses were also affected.
My apologies if you were unable to receive postings from UV-Birders as a result of this problem, but you should be all set now. If you want to review postings from the time period when you were not receiving them, the web based archives at:
http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html
has the complete content of all postings, organized by date.
Bill Schults
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Schults
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:10 AM
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Subject: Configuration problems for Yahoo (and some other) account holders
UVB subscribers:
NOTE: I am posting this notice to UVB to make subscribers aware, and also notifying the affected subscribers individually, as they may not currently be receiving postings.
Recent e-mail configuration changes by yahoo.com to prevent e-mail "spoofing" may have affected some subscriber's ability to be a ListServ subscriber. "Spoofing" is a practice used by spammers to "borrow" someone else's e-mail address and send messages out to other users and make it appear that the e-mail came from the "borrowed" e-mail address. This can sometimes enhance the ability of spammers to push their junk e-mail through spam filters and other configurations designed to prevent spam from being delivered.
Some other e-mail providers also seem to be affected. I don't know if this is because they have also made this configuration change, or because some of their services are actually hosted by yahoo.com. The affected e-mail providers currently seem to include:
Yahoo.com
Hotmail.com
Comcast.net
MSN.com
ALL e-mail addresses hosted on these mail servers appeared this week on a list of UVB accounts being monitored for "too many delivery errors."
NOTE: I do not believe that these e-mail address has been "borrowed," only that changes made by yahoo-com to prevent "spoofing" have (unintentionally?) caused those e-mail accounts to send "non-delivery errors" back to the UVB ListServ, which is now monitoring those accounts as a source of "too many delivery errors."
These accounts were about to be "auto-deleted" from UVB as an account that is either inactive or otherwise blocked from receiving list postings. I have changed the settings on the ListServ to temporarily turn off the "auto-delete" function to try to prevent this from happening.
NOTE: I think the affected subscribers should be able to successfully post to the ListServ under these conditions, but let me know if anyone is having difficulties. If you are not receiving ListServ postings, you can use the web-based archives at the link always posted at the bottom of every post:
http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html
You have to set up a password to use the web archives, but once you do you can read postings and make postings yourself from the web page.
I'm hopeful that either yahoo.com or Peach.Ease (publisher of ListServ software) will work out a solution to this problem soon! There is a lively discussion (which I am monitoring) going on at the "ListServ Owners" ListServ about how to deal with this problem.
Bill Schults
Co-list-owner, [log in to unmask]
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