I suppose it's because some spammers have spoofed St. Johns listserv
addresses.  At least that's what I would guess at first thought.   St. Johns'
listservs have also been blacklisted by AOL.

Kat

On Saturday 25 December 2004 6:43 pm, ken barber wrote:
> yes, i get it now, except why did yahoo blacklist st
> johns in the first place? did they think all the
> messages were spam becouse of volume? i will try to
> find a place other than yahoo to use, but whatever we
> use could get the same fate with 12000 people looking
> for a new home.
>
> --- Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:23, ken barber wrote:
> > > what do you think caused this? any ideas?
> >
> > Have a look at my other message tonight which
> > explains what happened.
> >
> > Basically StJohns University was "blacklisted" by
> > Yahoo (they stopped
> > accepting any more emails from StJohns). This caused
> > a huge build up on
> > undelivered mail on the University's mail servers.
> > The university Sys Admin
> > "solved"(!!) this problem by deleting all Yahoo
> > bound mail from the queue and
> > then deleteing you and Kathy's accounts (along with
> > 12000 others).
> >
> > Hope this explains it.
> >
> > Cheers (now full of much Turkey)
> >
> > Deri
>
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