Gmail blocks messages to Yahoo mailing lists? (flexcoders)
Posted by: Doug, in Google, flexcodersOK, so get this. I just tried to reply to someone’s question on the flexcoders mailing list. I hit send and instantly I get a reply (instantly as in a few milliseconds). The reply is from Google telling me they have blocked my message from being sent to the mailing list. Here’s the message I got:
So I think, WTF? And then I click on the link they gave me to explain why the hell the blocked my message. I get to this page and it tells me this:
Here at Gmail, we work very hard to fight spam. This includes not only spam coming into Gmail but spam being sent out from Gmail as well. Believe it or not, spammers sign up for Gmail addresses in large numbers just to send out spam! To help do our part to keep this junk off of the internet, we bounce mail that we are confident is spam. Unfortunately, we aren’t perfect and will occasionally bounce legitimate mail. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Umm, ok, I guess. That’s pretty lame that I’ve been a fairly regular emailer to what is very clearly a Yahoo mailing list for the past few years, and now Google decides I’m acting like a spam bot when I try to send this message. But then I laughed out loud in the kind of “fuck you” way that I do sometimes when I read this:
Depending on your needs, there are a number of different ways to reliably send bulk mail that avoid the pitfalls of doing it manually with Gmail. You may be interested to try Google Groups for newsletters/mailing lists or Calendar for sending invitations to events.
So Google blocks my valid email to the flexcoders mailing list (a Yahoo group list) and then recommends I try using Google groups mailing list. You’re telling me that if I had been sending to a @googlegroups.com email address instead of a @yahoogroups.com email address then it would have gone through?
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April 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
This is absurd. You should stop using gmail and demand a refund at once! Welcome to the new evil empire.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:14 am
The amount of my online life that I’ve given over to Google makes me nervous sometimes. Stories like this only support that feeling.
Ironically, even though in principle I like to see the competition [between Yahoo and Google], it would be nice if flexcoders did switch over to Google Groups - the Yahoo mailing list software has been spotty for as long as I’ve been using it (years).
April 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Doug, it might have something to do with the content of your e-mail. I’ve had no such problems with gmail/flexcoders.
I dunno, maybe you use to sign your messages with Doug Mccune in huge blue letters or something like that
April 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I haven’t had such an issue. I’ve been using Gmail with Flex Coders for months without a hiccup. Been actually really enjoying using a GMAIL account for Flex coders so I have all the messages searchable and archived (better than the Yahoo search that is always giving me timeout errors).
Maybe it’s a temporary hiccup with your account? Maybe you were sending an email with a bunch of links? Who knows?
–Todd
April 15th, 2008 at 3:18 am
I don’t belong to the Flex Coders list, but I am on several other Yahoo groups, and have never had such a problem either.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I had the same problem last week, tried rewording reformatting the message (all within gmail) and nothing would go.
Ended up just giving up
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yep - same here. What is happening to me is a bit different. Like you, I have all of the FlexCoders traffic go to GMail so I can search for items easier, and have threading. I can reply to people messages, but I don’t ever see my message come back to me. After checking against yahoo groups on the web, I get about 1 of 10 messages filtered. Hell of a way to get confused in a thread.