Administrivia - IMPORTANT Information RE: Yahoo and AOL Users

Hi All,

Recently Yahoo and AOL have changed the way they are fighting spam. On
April 12 Yahoo and on Apr 22 AOL implemented a strict DMARC policy
that will cause posts to mailing lists, such as ours from yahoo.com
and aol.com users to be bounced by many other services.

What does this mean to you, the DBA list member?

1) If you are sending from yahoo.com or aol.com, list members may not
see your email.
2) If you are receiving email from the list that was sent by a
yahoo.com or aol.com users, your list subscription may be put on hold
because your mail server bounces these emails.
3) If you are receiving email from the list that was sent by a
yahoo.com or aol.com users, these emails may be ending up in your spam
folder.
4) Nothing at all will be different, if your mail server doesn't do
any DMARC checking.

Currently there is no easy way for DBA to fix this. Each of the 5
possible "fixes" comes with it's own set of issues.

The developers of the mailing list software are currently working on a
release to partially deal with these issues, but that won't be ready
for a week or two. At which point, I will let you know when the lists
are going down for upgrading.

In the meantime, please check your spam folder for list mail.

If you have any questions or concerns contact me at
listmaster at databaseadvisors.com or my personal account,
carbonnb at gmail.com.



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Bryan Carbonnell - listmaster at databaseadvisors.com
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
shouting "What a great ride!"