The forwarder page says "There are known issues with Yahoo forwarders. If you choose to forward your email to a Yahoo address, you run the risk of blacklisting the server. If this happens, your forwarders will be disabled permanently."  Our small non-profit (see us at www.thecathouse.org) needs to set up a forwarder that would include several volunteers who have yahoo addresses.  Is this warning still applicable, or is it out of date.   I don't really want to test it and risk disabling all our forwarders.  My only workaround has been to ask people to set up gmail accounts that are forwarded to their yahoo addresses, then use the gmail address in the forwarder.  Anyone have any thoughts/knowledge about this?

Thanks,
Faye

If Yahoo! is going to be so anal about blacklisting LP servers, just emplace a ban on forwarding to Yahoo!. That, or force some serious spam control on any account forwarding, especially to Yahoo!. Perhaps run Spam Assassin on forwarded emails, and refuse to send anything suspicious until the user signs on to their LP email account and manually forwards the email (overruling SA). LP might send an "empty envelope" to the forwarding address, to let the user know that something is waiting back at LP.

It's unfortunate that it's come to this, but until governments get serious about treating spammers as cyberterrorists (shoot on sight), this problem will continue. Of course, the easy and proper solution is to charge postage for all emails (say, $0.10 per 1500 bytes), so it becomes prohibitively expensive to spam. People with compromised (pwned or zombie) machines used to spew spam will start paying attention to virus and spyware scanning once they receive their first $3000 email postage bill! ISPs would need to be required to negotiate a monthly email cap on customer accounts so that if your PC is compromised, the financial damage is limited. Oh well, I'm not going to hold my breath.