Based on some emails I got from Yahoo a week or so ago, it looks like they may have made their deactivation policy a bit more aggressive recently for people that didn't use their emails. Not sure if that would explain it entirely, but it might be a piece of the puzzle.
Lodewijk On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 2:50 PM Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > In my experience, both AOL and Yahoo email addresses have been a problem > for at least 10 years, and the problem is from their end, not ours. On the > other hand, why are we sending out monthly subscription reminders? Aside > from the routine unsubscription of AOL and Yahoo accounts, do we have any > reason to believe this is a useful exercise? > > Incidentally, Mark, the link you provided is listed as "suspicious" by my > security system (Norton)....is there somewhere else we could read that > information? > > Risker/Anne > (Listadmin on a bunch of lists, going back to 2009). > > > > > > On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 17:40, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2023-05-01 at 21:18 +0000, Platonides wrote: >> > Most likely, these were a consequence of the monthly subscription >> > reminders bouncing for all those users. >> >> That makes sense. But now that I've gone back and looked, I see TWO >> unsubscription notifications for each email. That seems excessive. >> >> > This leads to the question on what caused all those reminders to >> > fail, though. Looks like some error at their server. Were they all >> > using the same domain? >> > >> > I didn't see any unsubscription spike here. >> >> I only saw the spike on one mailing list that I have but it seems to be >> exclusively @aol.com and @yahoo.com email addresses. >> https://www.volomp.com/isp/bye-bye-aol-yahoo-hello-oath/ >> >> Mark. >> _______________________________________________ >> Listadmins mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> To request technical changes for a specific list, please instead create a >> task in Phabricator. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists > > _______________________________________________ > Listadmins mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To request technical changes for a specific list, please instead create a > task in Phabricator. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
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