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Re: Yahoo Mail Update


From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach () netflight com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:10:36 -0700


On 4/10/08, chuck goolsbee <chucklist () forest net> wrote:
       An anonymous source at Yahoo told me that they have pushed
a config update sometime today out to their servers to help with these
deferral issues.

       Please don't ask me to play proxy on this one of any
other issues you may have, but take a look at your queues and
they should be getting better.

       - Jared

 Thanks for the update Jared. I can understand your request to not be used
as a proxy, but it exposes the reason why Yahoo is thought to be clueless:
They are completely opaque.

 They can not exist in this community without having some visibity and
interaction on an operational level.

 Yahoo should have a look at how things are done at AOL. While the feedback
loop from the *users* at AOL is mostly a source of entertainment, dealing
with the postmaster staff at AOL is a benchmark in how it should be done.

*heh*  Well, depending upon how the battle turns out, Yahoo is likely to
go the way of whomever its new partner will be--which will either be more
like AOL, or more like Hotmail.

Sounds like there's already some amount of preference at least among
this group as to which way they'd prefer to see the battle go.  ^_^;

Matt

 Proxy that message over and perhaps this issue of Yahoo's perennially
broken mail causing the rest of us headaches will go away. It seems to come
up here on nanog and over on the mailop list every few weeks.

 --chuck


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