They not only bounce legit emails that the recipients need, but also
allow thieves to use their accounts to make fraudlent credit card orders
and will do nothing about it.  A number of stores on our system will not
accept orders from people with those  addresses due to the huge fraud
rate associated with them.

AOL is another one that bounces legitimate messages for no reason.  We
have more problems with AOL than all the others put together.

Marshall

John Rigby wrote:

> Hi Denise & folks,
>
> At 09:46 AM 02/06/04 GMT+10, (my time)
> [email protected] wrote :
>
>> Is this true that Yahoo & Hotmail et al censor email?  Can you
>> reference this?
>
> END OF QUOTE
>
> Sure can!
> Although this is off-topic - it is important for people to know:
>
> Many professional Lists will no longer accept addresses from Yahoo,
> Hotmail  and others because of the insanity of these dreegs ( a word
> for the psychopathically asocial) with insufficient brainpower to
> understand the real world - who setup these net-nazi censorship
> schemes.
> In the real world they would do 10-20 in the Federal Pen for
> interfering with mail, but it seems they must be serving a very dark
> purpose for our Owners in getting us ready for totally controlled
> communication and paid-for emailing.
> What happens is that somebody forgets that they subscribed to a
> Newsletter and report it as spam - depending on the level of
> stupidity/cupidity of the ISP or the program used, as simply as
> clicking on a "junk" option and that innocent Newsletter publishers is
> AUTOMATICALLY put on some Blacklist - which is then shared amongst
> these idiots and the rest of his legitimate clients can no longer
> receive their requested mail.
>
> It has happened to such pristine organisations as NASA,  Kennedy Space
> Centre,  a large US Hospital (name escapes me) and Fablor.
> You can read more here:
> http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=blacklist&sp-a=0008002a-sp00000000
>
> and for those interested on the serious level:  read this from a
> FABLOR  Small Business Support article:
> http://fablor.com/safetynet/   See: "Special Business News &
> Resources"
>
>
>