The reason for mass unsub due to bounces has to do with frequency of emails in the mailing list. Basically, disabled accounts due to abuse or departures pile up but the mailman doesn't know about it until there is a mail which would get a bounce response, if you get five bounce responses (or more, I don't know the exact number), then the mailman starts unsubscribing them. So the build up is gradual, the removal is sudden. That's usually how it happens. Unless AOL/Yahoo decide for whatever reason to stop accepting email from our mailing lists mailserver and start bouncing them (thinking they are spoofed, which happens sometimes) but then still need to get multiple bounces still to start unsubscribing users.
HTH Am Di., 2. Mai 2023 um 02:19 Uhr schrieb Mark A. Hershberger < [email protected]>: > On Mon, 2023-05-01 at 17:50 -0400, Risker wrote: > > Incidentally, Mark, the link you provided is listed as "suspicious" > > by my security system (Norton)....is there somewhere else we could > > read that information? > > Hopefully Norton isn't blacklistsing WaPo or NYT: > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/12/verizon-takes-massive-billion-write-down-its-media-business/ > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/business/verizon-yahoo-aol-sale.html > > The WaPo article is following up on the news in the link I sent earlier > which was talking about how Verizon was pushing AOL and Yahoo! users to > a single email system managed by a company they created called Oath. > > The WaPo followup, published 6 months after the link I sent, says > Verizon is giving up on making any money on them. > > And, then, 2.5 years later, you have the NYT saying they are trying to > dump AOL and Yahoo! completely. (Both of the above articles mention > Oath, which is how I found them.) > > Sorry to go on about this. The talk about Yahoo! takes me back to a > time before Wikipedia existed and one of the founders of Yahoo! was > making a big donation to the University where I worked. > > 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 -- Amir (he/him)
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