bounced

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kristilynn5
<kristilynn5 at y...>" <kristilynn5 at y...> wrote:
> Sorry to trouble y'all with this, but earlier today I was told my 
> messages were getting "bounced."  I went to groups and reactivated my 
> accounts, but I am still not receiving my email from my groups.  Do 
> y'all have any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Kristi

bboy_mn:

This happened to me several times, I thought maybe if I explained HOW
it happened to me, that might give you some insight into your problem.

I started using a mail screening program to reduce the amount of SPAM
I get on my computer and to pre-screen for viruses. This program has a
feature that allows me to BOUNCE emails back to the sended to make it
look like my email address is no longer valid. If you do this enough
times then you email address starts to look like bad address and gets
dropped from the email address databases that are being distributed.

The problem occurs when I bounce a message that has been sent to my
Yahoo address FROM a YAHOO address. When the Yahoo Email server
recieve the 'bounce' email, it thinks that it has found a bad Yahoo
email address. So it freezes the account and test the address by
sending a message telling you to reactivate your account. If the
account is never re-activated then they can be pretty sure it is a
dead account. If you do re-activate then they assume ti was a random
error and that everything is fine.

The problem is millions of people take out a Yahoo or Hotmail address
and use it to send out a million advertisements which causes
Yahoo/Hotmail to cancel the account, but it's too late then, the
emails have already gone out. The next time, they invent a new email
(Yahoo or Hotmail) name and do it all over again.

If you look at some of the return addesses from Yahoo/Hotmail source
SPAM, you will see that the name is just a random bunch of letters and
numbers. There are email 'robot' programs that will create a randomly
generated/create Yahoo/Hotmail usernames and account each time the
program is used. That makes it almost impossible to track the SPAM
back to the source. And it makes it almost impossible for
Yahoo/Hotmail to stop these people.

So, if you bounce a message that comes to your Yahoo address from a
Yahoo address. The Yahoo email server will pick it up as it passes
through and think it has found a bad Yahoo email address.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but there you have it.

bboy_mn