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Re: [CQ-Contest] 3830 & Yahoo Mail.

To: brian coyne <g4odv@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3830 & Yahoo Mail.
From: Tom Haavisto <kamham69@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:02:13 -0500
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Hi Brian

I suggest you create a Gmail account, and use that for your 3830
subscription.  Works like a charm, and can handle the high volume that
3830 generates.

Tom - VE3CX



On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:12 AM, brian coyne <g4odv@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> After CW CQWW contest I had to go away for a few days. On my return the were 
> some 1300 mails in my Yahoo mailbox and a few in my Spam box. I should have 
> unsubscribed.
> I deleted the majority and a day later I had mail from Dave Pascoe, KM3T who 
> is one of the Admin staff for Contesting.com, enquiring why I had been 
> marking the 3830 post as as 'Spam' On enquiry it seemed that there was about 
> a dozen involved.
>
> Over the years Yahoo have been diverting the odd 3830 post into the Spam box, 
> I read and delete them thinking nothing of it. Obviously the ones Dave 
> referred to had been in the spam box. Since Dave's mail the 3830 posts in my 
> Spam box has rocketed to 60/70 each day and this morning after the busy 
> contest weekend I have more than 450 in there which is ridiculous.
>
> I know nothing about how Yahoo works with regard to Spam. I am pretty sure 
> that I did not mark any of my Inbox mail as Spam although cannot rule it out. 
> I may have done for one page. Dave tells me they are having great problems 
> with Yahoo due to this issue because of the vast number of subscribers to the 
> Contesting.com.
>
> The only solution, if it is a solution, I can think of is to mark all mail 
> from lists we subscribe to, whether or not we intend to read them, is to mark 
> and move them into the Inbox before doing any deletions, do NOT delete them 
> in the Spam box!  I am doing that now even though it seems it is too late for 
> me.
>
> Is there anything I can do by contact with Yahoo to rectify this issue? The 
> Admin guys at the List have more than enough to handle without all the 
> aggravation they are getting from Yahoo and also AOL I understand. All 
> suggestions welcomed.
>
> 73,
> Brian C4Z / 5B4AIZ.
>
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