On 4/16/2014 12:51 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
What I'm advising list admins here, which puts a band-aid on the problem, is to put all yahoo.com subscribers on moderation, effectively making them read-only subscriptions. Also go through your membership list and clear any nomail disablements with a "[B]" beside them. We're also advising yahoo.com list subscribers to get a Gmail account (as free and easy to get as a Yahoo account)
Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo address) into a new message _of his/her own_ and send _that_ to the list? This message could include the original From: address _in its body text_ (not its headers) along with a brief reference to the yahoo problem to explain the unusual format.
From what I've read here so far, I think this would succeed in avoiding the usual yahoo-generated problems. However, I can foresee a couple of drawbacks (besides the extra work for list admins):
1. Other subscribers replying to the message will get MUA-generated text saying "Larry List-Admin wrote" instead of "Sonia Subscriber wrote". Those who pay attention and take a little trouble can change that before clicking Send, but many won't.
2. Similarly, other subscribers wanting to reply privately will send their replies to Larry List-Admin instead of Sonia Subscriber if they aren't careful (and some of them won't be). The list admin can forward these replies, but in a few cases they may contain confidential material that the admin shouldn't have seen.
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