October 5, 2003: Yahoo! Blues

Recently, we've noticed that our spam blocker has been nailing a number of messages sent from yahoo.com, even ones from our friends. There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern to what does and doesn't get flagged.

The obvious answer is "Don't send us e-mail from yahoo.com," but we realize that isn't practical for many folks. If you have to use yahoo.com, please allow for the possibility that your message may get intercepted and plan accordingly. It can't hurt to send along a very brief "Look for my note about Fnord" letter, which (we hope) will get through even if the actual mail doesn't.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to solve the problem very soon.

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