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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Yahoo Mail Settings
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
To facilitate the smooth flow of messages between legitimate senders and
Yahoo! Mail, we offer the following recommendations:
Limit the messages you send per connection
Yahoo! Mail accepts a maximum of 20 messages per SMTP connection. We
encourage you to cap the number of messages you send to Yahoo! Mail to
fall within this per-connection limit.
When this limit is reached, no further messages will be accepted for
delivery as our server automatically terminates the connection (without
giving an error code). If you are sending messages to a significant
number of Yahoo! Mail users, the suggestions below will help ensure
uninterrupted delivery for your messages.
Re-establish connections if you do not get an error code
When our server terminates your connection after 20 messages have been
accepted, you may try to reconnect to our MX servers immediately
thereafter.
Open concurrent connections
You may open concurrent connections from the same server to facilitate
efficient transmission of your messages. However, while we do not
publish specific guidelines for the numbers of connections you can
concurrently use, we ask that you treat our resources with respect. The
more you take, the fewer there are for others, which may force us to
de-prioritize connections from your server(s).
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail. Your case number for this
issue is XXXXXX. Please reference it in all future communication about
this particular issue.
Regards, Hank
Yahoo! Customer Care
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
ipv4 dead? no way tons still available
| Bogon Prefixes | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | Prefix | Type |
| 1 | 0.0.0.0/1 | this-network |
| 2 | 24.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 3 | 58.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 4 | 60.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 5 | 62.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 6 | 63.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 7 | 64.0.0.0/5 | unallocated |
| 8 | 72.0.0.0/6 | unallocated |
| 9 | 76.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 10 | 80.0.0.0/5 | unallocated |
| 11 | 88.0.0.0/6 | unallocated |
| 12 | 124.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 13 | 128.0.0.0/2 | unallocated |
| 14 | 192.0.0.0/3 | unallocated |
| 15 | 199.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 16 | 200.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 17 | 202.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 18 | 204.0.0.0/6 | unallocated |
| 19 | 208.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 20 | 210.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 21 | 212.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 22 | 216.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 23 | 217.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
| 24 | 218.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 25 | 220.0.0.0/7 | unallocated |
| 26 | 222.0.0.0/8 | unallocated |
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Yahoo is screwing with your email
I've seen this email get tossed around the email farm every few months so I thought I'd blog about it, the premise is pretty clear and the complaining is about
YAHOO screwing with your emails.
It's been going on for quite some time now, and you all should know that any text in the body of a message can be replaced with a hyperlink to an advertisement that is:
What is there to do about it?
Change the style of your body messages, it is easier to place something like the code below around the entire block of text and Yahoo will ignore the text as an option to add their Yahoo Links. Eliminating the problem above:
Code:
What about the links changing? try this solution:
Code:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.yshortcuts { color:#CCCCCC }
.yshortcuts a span { color:#00FF00 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Arial', Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Plain;
font-size: 12px;
color: #CCCCCC; padding: 2px; margin: 2px; line-height: 12px; font-weight: normal; display: block;
width: 400px;">This is a test link <a href="http://www.robo-mail.com/" style="text-decoration:
none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; color: #00FF00;">www.robo-mail.com</a> to enter.</div>
</body>
</html>
YAHOO screwing with your emails.
- "We were testing outbound emails in the usual email clients/services. When we looked at our messages in Yahoo mail, we noticed that Yahoo is now turning random snippets of text into hyper-links that, upon rollover, point to their advertising partners. Obviously this will cause some issues as we're sending out emails on behalf of our clients that, when viewed in Yahoo inbox, suddenly include links to competitor's sites. Not good. (Incidentally, this is also causing the linked text to change color, which in some cases, makes the text hard to read on a dark background.)"
It's been going on for quite some time now, and you all should know that any text in the body of a message can be replaced with a hyperlink to an advertisement that is:
What is there to do about it?
Change the style of your body messages, it is easier to place something like the code below around the entire block of text and Yahoo will ignore the text as an option to add their Yahoo Links. Eliminating the problem above:
Code:
<a style="cursor:text;text-decoration:none;">
<span style="text-decoration:none;">
[plain text with regular links goes here]
</span>
</a>
What about the links changing? try this solution:
Code:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.yshortcuts { color:#CCCCCC }
.yshortcuts a span { color:#00FF00 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Arial', Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Plain;
font-size: 12px;
color: #CCCCCC; padding: 2px; margin: 2px; line-height: 12px; font-weight: normal; display: block;
width: 400px;">This is a test link <a href="http://www.robo-mail.com/" style="text-decoration:
none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; color: #00FF00;">www.robo-mail.com</a> to enter.</div>
</body>
</html>
Mountain Dew Email Rendering
Email rendering is important.
Critical? Probably not, because for most B2C email lists will contain 50-70% yahoo email addresses. That is your big buffalo, if it's not rendering at yahoo? then you need to fix that. Yes, that would be critical.
The mobile devices still have people scratching and banging their heads against the wall.
Here is an example of a critical flaw in sending an email. Only send the email in HTML. It does not render well for quite a few people, including the elusive mobile folks. See the results from Mountain Dew's campaign.
The Bad:
Blackberry.
The REAL Bad:
Plain Text.
The VERY VERY BAD:
Yahoo.
What it's supposed to like:
I don't mean to pick on just 1 email.
Let's look at Dell's recent email too?
DELL RESULTS: click here
VERY VERY VERY BAD:
One of the image link goes to a 404 page can not be found.
http://www.img.deliverynet/cm50content/2438/29898/titulo.jpg
Kinda bad:
Windows Mobile
Critical? Probably not, because for most B2C email lists will contain 50-70% yahoo email addresses. That is your big buffalo, if it's not rendering at yahoo? then you need to fix that. Yes, that would be critical.
The mobile devices still have people scratching and banging their heads against the wall.
Here is an example of a critical flaw in sending an email. Only send the email in HTML. It does not render well for quite a few people, including the elusive mobile folks. See the results from Mountain Dew's campaign.
The Bad:
Blackberry.
The REAL Bad:
Plain Text.
The VERY VERY BAD:
Yahoo.
What it's supposed to like:
I don't mean to pick on just 1 email.
Let's look at Dell's recent email too?
DELL RESULTS: click here
VERY VERY VERY BAD:
One of the image link goes to a 404 page can not be found.
http://www.img.deliverynet/cm50content/2438/29898/titulo.jpg
Kinda bad:
Windows Mobile
Monday, July 19, 2010
Yahoo Investigators
Watch out - Yahoo
is looking at your links, and if you are not careful they are also unsubscribing people from your list(s).
66.196.97.X [the last octet is usually between .157 and .168]
209.191.87.X [the last octet is usually between .214 and .221]
Note: 99% of the time the user agent of choice is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Note: Yahoo Slurp comes from 209.191.87.221 : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
is looking at your links, and if you are not careful they are also unsubscribing people from your list(s).
66.196.97.X [the last octet is usually between .157 and .168]
209.191.87.X [the last octet is usually between .214 and .221]
Note: 99% of the time the user agent of choice is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Note: Yahoo Slurp comes from 209.191.87.221 : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
Friday, July 16, 2010
Do you buy coreg data?
Is the source of your email lists from co-reg data?
If so, you might want to talk to me off line about your data.
I've found a number of spam traps from people who said they have gotten data from the following sources below.
NOTE: THIS LIST OF EMAIL COREG DATA SOURCES DOES NOT IMPLY ANY MISCONDUCT BY ANYONE NOR SHOULD BE TAKEN THIS WAY. I CAN NOT VERIFY IF THESE ARE REAL DATA SOURCES OR FORGED WHEN RENTED OR PURCHASED.
TO MISINTERPRET THIS LIST IN ANY WAY WOULD BE COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE.
- So ask yourself, do you have coreg data?
>> If yes - read on.
- Does any of your data say that it comes from any of the following sources?
>> If yes - see if any of your sources come from the following:
SOURCES:
===================
If you do, I can send you a sample of spam traps email addresses to check to see if they are on your list(s) and how to find more of them.
If so, you might want to talk to me off line about your data.
I've found a number of spam traps from people who said they have gotten data from the following sources below.
NOTE: THIS LIST OF EMAIL COREG DATA SOURCES DOES NOT IMPLY ANY MISCONDUCT BY ANYONE NOR SHOULD BE TAKEN THIS WAY. I CAN NOT VERIFY IF THESE ARE REAL DATA SOURCES OR FORGED WHEN RENTED OR PURCHASED.
TO MISINTERPRET THIS LIST IN ANY WAY WOULD BE COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE.
- So ask yourself, do you have coreg data?
>> If yes - read on.
- Does any of your data say that it comes from any of the following sources?
>> If yes - see if any of your sources come from the following:
SOURCES:
===================
100bestfranchises.com
123freetravel.com
60secondcarquote.com
7kfinancial.com
aaa-recipes.com
adswise.com
air-attack.com
allapi.net
americasweather.com
amny.com
apartments.com
artistdirect.com
astrology.com
autofinancinghub.com
backontrackloans.com
baltimoresun.com
barrons.com
bctop100.com
birthdaypartyideas.com
bookingbuddy.com
bookit.com
boston.com
businessjournal.com
businessmailbox.com
buy.com
careerbuilder.com
celebritycruises.com
checkngo.com
chicagotribune.com
classicvacations.com
classifieds.com
classmates.com
computerworld.com
coolsavings.com
countrycharts.com
courant.com
cowboy.com
custodyevaluators.com
daawat.com
dailyindia.com
dailypress.com
debthelp101.com
diamond-platinum-card.com
discoverfinancial.com
disney-princesses.com
e-mailspecials.com
ebay.com
ecoupons.com
edwardjones.com
entrepreneur.com
esweeps.com
expedia.com
ez-powercart.com
famousquotes.ws
fandango.com
financialtimes.com
footballavenue.com
franchisegator.com
franchiseocity.com
freebiesforbabies.com
freelotto.com
freescripts.com
getyourgift.com
golftoday.co.uk
greatfreeware.com
greenwichtime.com
healthanddiets.com
hi-techreviews.com
howtomakestuff.com
insidecowboys.com
investcom.com
ivillage.com
jamaica-star.com
javascriptkit.com
journalstar.com
kayak.com
latimes.com
lilcharmers.com
magazinecity.net
marketworm.com
match.com
metpronews.com
modifiedcars.com
moovees.com
morningstar.com
motortrend.com
mydrinkrecipes.com
myjaco.com
mysafeonlinecash.com
myspace.com
nemofriends.com
netflix.com
nigeriadailynews.com
offers-4-u.com
orlandosun.com
orlandoweekly.com
parenting.com
people.com
pethandbook.com
photoparade.com
polkonline.com
popularliving.com
projectpayday.com
qmovies.com
quickestautoloans.com
radiocashnow.comssl
recordnet.com
restylane.info
rivals100.com
silent-creation.net
skateboardspots.com
solarviews.com
soulsearch.net
spellarama.com
spokesmanreview.com
stamfordadvocate.com
starseeker.com
studentsreview.com
stuttgartarkansas.com
suddenpayday.com
sun-sentinal.com
superdotnet.com
swishweb.com
swnebr.net
tagged.com
teachitforward.com
teamautohaus.net
thatcherprescott.com
thecoloringspot.com
theconsumerreport.com
theparenteducator.com
trackyourcash.com
tradeking.com
travelocity.com
tvshark.com
uptofifteenhundred.com
virtualchicagoland.com
vocabtest.com
wakeskating.com
washingtonpost.com
wavefilter.com
wb.com
weatherhub.com
whitepages.com
wildconsumers.com
wireimage.com
wnav.com
work-from-home-picks.com
wsj.com
xtremesportsxchange.com
yourdotcomoffers.com
yoursurveyoffers.com
If you do, I can send you a sample of spam traps email addresses to check to see if they are on your list(s) and how to find more of them.
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