thanks deri, at least we know what happened. anything
to do other than find another email to use? this will
continue to happen ever so often i'd guess.

--- Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 02:00, ken barber wrote:
> > that was strange, even though the listserve
> recognized
> > me as an admin, it for some reason did not find me
> as
> > a member. i had to add myself back onto the list.
> > does this mean i need to reintroduce myself? LOL,
> > computers are strange.
> >
> >
> >
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> Hi Ken,
>
> I'm afraid Yahoo "Blacklisted"£ StJohn's University
> a few days ago, this meant
> that the mail queues on the List Server started
> filling up with undelivered
> Yahoo messages. The Universities Unix Admin then
> decided to "silently" delete
> ALL yahoo subscribers from ALL lists!!
>
> Here's an email I got from him:-
>
>
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>
> Re: Yahoo blocking Maelstrom.
>
> From: Paul Karagianis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 16/12/2004 20:37
>
> On 16 Dec 2004, at 13:52, Scout wrote:
>
> >> Unless
> >> some other solution is found I'll be doing a
> quiet blanket delete on
> >> all Yahoo and Yahoo affiliates later today.
> >
> >Kary, has this been done?  I got online a bit late
> today and first
> >thing did a query of the lists for yahoo
> subscribers set to mail on
> >the lists so i could send them a private email
> about the problem ..
> >and got zero :(
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> >Is there someway to get a list of those nuked?
>
> Nope.  This is the second time in as many months
> that I've spent a
> vacation day at home dealing with some big ISP's
> blocking strategy.
> Roughly 12,000 subscribers were deleted, I'm not
> providing any more
> support for them beyond deleteing them and their
> mail.
>
>    -Kary
>
>
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>
> So he nuked 12,000 subscribers!!
>
> Merry Christmas. (and welcome back!!)
>
> Deri
>




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