Re: [libreoffice-users] Where is everyone?

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Girvin Herr wrote:

> Bruce,
> Thanks for the response.
> Yes, I have ask.libreoffice.org bookmarked also.  It is another 
> resource.  This forum has benefited me in the past, and I prefer to stay 
> with it.  As I said, I have been away for about 2 years and I was not 
> sure what had happened to the forum in that time.  I have spent the last 
> year off-and-on trying to sign up again through my at&t/yahoo email 
> provider, but my subscription requests have been going into a black 
> hole.  I never even got the subscription confirmation replies.  I 
> suspected the problem was with at&t/yahoo again, similar to 2 years ago, 
> so I had a friend, who was not with at&t/yahoo, test the subscription 
> process and it worked for him.  That was when I had proof that the 
> problem was with at&t/yahoo.  I suspect they are blacklisting this forum 
> for whatever reason, but they never told me they were doing it.  I am in 
> the process of shutting down my at&t/yahoo email service and, as you can 
> see in the header, I am in the process of switching to FastMail.  They 
> seem to be working fine.
>
> Thanks again and take care.
> Girvin

possible cause:

"In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, 
Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that 
unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists."

Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service Apr 8, 2014 6:10 AM

<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141120/yahoo-email-antispoofing-policy-breaks-mailing-lists.html>

f.

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