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Over the weekend, thousands gathered for a “Tahrir Square”-style protest of Wall Street’s domination of American politics. The protesters, organized online and by organizations like Adbusters, have called their effort “Occupy Wall Street” and have set up the website: www.OccupyWallSt.org. However, several YouTube users posted videos of themselves trying to email a message inviting their friends to visit the Occupy Wall St campaign website, only to be blocked repeatedly by Yahoo. View a video of ThinkProgress making the attempt with the same blocked message experienced by others (click full screen for a better view of the text):
Your message was not sent
Suspicious activity has been detected on your account. To protect your account and our users, your message has not been sent.
If this error continues, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care for further help.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Originally posted by calstorm
I use yahoo as an alternative e-mail address. I am truly not surprised. I have had this happen to me before. I can't remember what the subject was however.
Originally posted by spyder550
As a 30 year computer guy and as a network engineer. I think they got caught by a spam filter configuration. The mail was not sent to the bit bucket or bounced to the sender. Yahoo reported that the mail was probably spam but could be retrieved -- embarrassing -- unprofessional - but I have seen enough networks shut down bu accident that I am not going to hop on the blame ferry right away. I have no love for Yahoo but I don't think they did this on purpose.
Originally posted by Pirateofpsychonautics
Originally posted by spyder550
As a 30 year computer guy and as a network engineer. I think they got caught by a spam filter configuration. The mail was not sent to the bit bucket or bounced to the sender. Yahoo reported that the mail was probably spam but could be retrieved -- embarrassing -- unprofessional - but I have seen enough networks shut down bu accident that I am not going to hop on the blame ferry right away. I have no love for Yahoo but I don't think they did this on purpose.
While I'm not an actual tech, due to being in IT sales for some time (selling infrastructure/virtualisation/networking/firewall/WatchGuard solutions) I can understand that. I'm pretty sure Yahoo! has some serious quarantine processes in its internal mail filter for html links and any external content embedded in an email (to stem the tide of spam).
Try sending a text only email with just the keywords 'occupy wall street' used- no links and see if it gets through. If it does, I was right, if not there may be cause for concern.
Don't set that witch on fire just yet.
edit on 21/9/11 by Pirateofpsychonautics because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by spyder550
As a 30 year computer guy and as a network engineer. I think they got caught by a spam filter configuration. The mail was not sent to the bit bucket or bounced to the sender. Yahoo reported that the mail was probably spam but could be retrieved -- embarrassing -- unprofessional - but I have seen enough networks shut down bu accident that I am not going to hop on the blame ferry right away. I have no love for Yahoo but I don't think they did this on purpose.