I have been silenced by Yahoo

[ck4829]

It has been my dream to create a massive mailing list conglomerate (if you want to call it that). I wanted to be a response to the so-called 'liberal' Media. I used the method most comfortable with me, and that was Yahoo Groups. I found over 35 Groups, the articles I had planned to post would have reached over 1000's of people and all over the globe. However, this was not the case.

I had done my first and received no complaints at all.

However when I had planned to forward my second post to the selected groups, an error came up, and it said:

" Message forwarding is unavailable."

Maybe I'm overreacting, but I believe I have been silenced. What I do is not spam, I stay on topic and I don't deliver a mass amount of messages to the same Group.

Does anyone have any solutions to my problem?

[VivaKerry]

1. It might be....

that if a number of people report your email as spam, you get cut off.

And if people don't recognize the return email address, they delete and maybe report it as spam.
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Maybe...

[salin]

2. What do you consider spam?

I consider it a blind, unsolicited email (or post) sent to a whole lot of people uninvited.

Perhaps your definition fits and this is not spam - in which case send the message 35 times (once to each group). Probably there is a yahoo filter that filters messages out that have multiple addressee's on the message.

[ck4829]

3. My definition of Spam is the same as yours

I stayed on topic, and was known in various Yahoo Groups.

Another strange thing was that I was able to send messages to multiple addressees before this happened, and now I can't even forward messages to the Groups I own

[Ardee]

4. maybe it meant what it said.....?

Perhaps that service is just temporarily unavailable, have you tried again?

I do sort of think that unsolicited emails to so many fits a broad definition of spam, no matter the thought behind it......Have you considered posing your idea to the groups and seeing their reactions?

[ck4829]

5. Yes, I have considered and tried both ideas

I have yet to see any reactions from the people. I had done this a long time ago, but in a much smaller window, and I had received a very positive response. I also have a 2nd Yahoo account, however it is not a part of as many groups as my main account is. Forwarding does work with my smaller 2nd account.

[Abe Linkman]

6. Yahoo! is quick on the trigger and NEVER responds to inquiries

I've had a similar problem with them. Whenever I've tried to send a message to a group of people, I get a message saying "there is an error in the cc/bcc field blah, blah blah". Yahoo!, like so many other Web-based co's does things arbitrarily, never warns in advance, never gives a believable reason, and simply refuses to respond to customers that try and contact them. If you call them on the phone (they do not have an 800 #), you will only be put on hold and no one ever answers.
PayPay is the same (at least as far as if you phone them).