Thanks & A Qustion & A Re-Post Of A Story About A Solar Storm Which Could Have Been Catastrophic.

[Rob Seastrom]

Richard <revo753 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Should the Tacos reflector, in addition to reflecting a message to
> others, also reflect the message back to the sender?
>
> It seems, I used to receive the messages which sent. As I remember,
> they were reflected back to me.  Currently this is not happening on
> the Tacos reflector.  Should I receive my messages reflected back to
> me?

The Tacos reflector sends you a copy of the message back to the
sender.  I will get a copy of this message.  However, due to changes
that Yahoo made (breaking every mailing list known to man, which was
considered acceptable collateral damage) you will not get mail that is
sent by you, or by anyone else with a yahoo.com email address due to a
"p=reject" DMARC policy:

merlot:~ rs$ dig +short _dmarc.yahoo.com. txt
"v=DMARC1\; p=reject\; sp=none\; pct=100\; rua=mailto:dmarc-yahoo-rua at yahoo-inc.com, mailto:dmarc_y_rua at yahoo.com\;"
merlot:~ rs$ 

Best suggestion is to vote with your feet.  AOL is just as bad as
Yahoo, and for the same reason (but who is moving _to_ an AOL account
in 2014?)... 

Note that right now gmail seems OK, but you ought to give serious
thought to registering your own domain name and paying to have it
hosted somewhere if you want to have a "permanent" email address and
not go through this nuttiness whenever an email provider gets a wild
hair.

Yahoo has made it clear that they are not interested in doing the
right thing by their customers.  Makes perfect sense inasmuch as if
you're not paying for the product, then *you are* the product.  I am
quite sure that yahoo regards you as chattel.

-r