… wherein I rename this blog “What change did Yahoo make today.” No, really, I like the guys at Yahoo a lot, but really, occasionally I would like to blog about something different!
Today’s change, actually yesterday’s, is that Yahoo has closed their beta FBL program to changes or additions. It is a beta program, this is not unexpected. They will be making changes based on the results of that program and will open it up sometime in the future.
Yahoo!’s announcement
Due to the success of our beta program, we are currently making changes to the application process for the Yahoo! Mail Complaint Feedback Loop program. As such, we are *not* processing new applications at this time. We do hope to re-launch an improved, more streamlined online process for interested participants soon. Please check our Postmaster Help pages often for updates in this regard.
What does this mean? It means there will be a Yahoo, part 6 post on this blog!
Happy Friday, everyone.
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Well, damn, it figures we’d find out about the FBL beta only by seeing this announcement of it being closed down, and I sure hope to see it opened up again, as that feature has been extremely useful for us with Hotmail and AOL.
In related news, I’m wondering if you have any insight into Yahoo’s whitelisting policy for sending servers, or any ideas for who to plead with to change what seems like a completely absurd restriction. They’ve now rejected two different applications for two different listservers we administer, each of which has a dedicated IP address and one of which serves only one domain, as follows:
“We cannot systematically exempt your mailings from our SpamGuard technology since the IP address of the server appears to be a shared domain mail host and have multiple clients sending email.”
We can’t figure out what they’re talking about, since this is a listserver hosting one domain at one IP address and that was made clear in the application, unless it’s that they see From: lines in multiple domains on messages from this server. This is of course simply a function of hosting discussion groups on which the sender’s address is preserved on distributed messages.
Are they saying that no such discussion group listserver can be whitelisted, that it’s only for mass-mailers sending newsletters From: a single domain? And if so, is that a deliberate policy, or an unintended consequence?
Thanks much.
Blech! They’re clueless. I’ve seen mail systems run by monkeys….that were better run.