Based on some emails I got from Yahoo a week or so ago, it looks like they may have made their deactivation policy a bit more aggressive recently for people that didn't use their emails. Not sure if that would explain it entirely, but it might be a piece of the puzzle. 

Lodewijk

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 2:50 PM Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:
In my experience, both AOL and Yahoo email addresses have been a problem for at least 10 years, and the problem is from their end, not ours.  On the other hand, why are we sending out monthly subscription reminders? Aside from the routine unsubscription of AOL and Yahoo accounts, do we have any reason to believe this is a useful exercise?

Incidentally, Mark, the link you provided is listed as "suspicious" by my security system (Norton)....is there somewhere else we could read that information?

Risker/Anne
(Listadmin on a bunch of lists, going back to 2009).





On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 17:40, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2023-05-01 at 21:18 +0000, Platonides wrote:
> Most likely, these were a consequence of the monthly subscription
> reminders bouncing for all those users.

That makes sense. But now that I've gone back and looked, I see TWO
unsubscription notifications for each email.  That seems excessive.

> This leads to the question on what caused all those reminders to
> fail, though. Looks like some error at their server. Were they all
> using the same domain?
>
> I didn't see any unsubscription spike here.

I only saw the spike on one mailing list that I have but it seems to be
exclusively @aol.com and @yahoo.com email addresses.
https://www.volomp.com/isp/bye-bye-aol-yahoo-hello-oath/ 

Mark.
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