R help - May 2014 - solution for r-help to the problem of yahoo addresses bouncing?

Hi R users,



this is not R related but rather affects the r-help list in general but 
I hope that some r-help users may have found a solution.

Since recently, i get messages like this from the list server:

"Your membership in the mailing list R-help has been disabled due to
excessive bounces..."


I suspect this is due to yahoo recently changing its handling of DMARC 
policies. Is there anything I can do from my side to change this? Or is 
the only solution to change the mail provider?


Thanks for any hints
Jannis

On May 16, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Jannis wrote:
> Hi R users,
> 
> 
> 
> this is not R related but rather affects the r-help list in general but I
hope that some r-help users may have found a solution.
> 
> Since recently, i get messages like this from the list server:
> 
> "Your membership in the mailing list R-help has been disabled due to
> excessive bounces..."
> 
> 
> I suspect this is due to yahoo recently changing its handling of DMARC
policies.
Yes. It is due to ISP bounces coming back to the ETHZ server. You do not say
what you did with the rest of the message. Did you click on the re-enable
hyperlink? About 250 people were recently forcibly unsubscribed on the same day,
mostly with yahoo, gmail, or hotmail addresses,  because they had failed to
re-enable their subscriptions. (This action by the mailserver filled up the
mailboxes of all the moderators.)
> Is there anything I can do from my side to change this? Or is the only
solution to change the mail provider?
Seek out methods of putting r-help on your whitemail list. Please do not ask me
to describe this for you further. That is your and your ISP's responsibility
to sort out.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA