A Message from the Yahoo Group Team

[mbulriss]

The message below my signature was at THE Yahoo group management site
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/y_groups_team

Simply stated, like almost every group on Yahoo, there are many
members of the WanderlodgeForum that are "bouncing". As of this
morning, 175 to be precise. "Bouncing" means that you signed up to
receive individual email messages, special notices, or digest delivery
of the individual forum posts, and the email address you signed up
with is rejecting or 'bouncing' these emails and sending them back to
Yahoo. It maybe that you changed email addresses and did not update
your membership record, or it may mean your email box is full, or
other service provider problems. This creates a tremendous problem
for Yahoo when over 10% of our members, just as an example, are
bouncing. Yahoo will soon begin automatically deleting bouncing members.

I recognize many of the email addresses that are bouncing, so I'm
hoping members will see this message and rectify this. WE can not fix
this for you. You may find that you will be automatically deleted from
this group as well as other Yahoo groups, so please know it wasn't me
or any of the other moderators. If you get deleted, please feel free
to sign back up, but make sure you adjust your settings and update
your info to include a working email address.

To fix the "bouncing" issue:
a member may always send reactivation requests to themselves from the
Email Preferences section of My Groups. To get there, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups

Go there and click on My Email Preferences on the right side of the
top section to see your bouncing history. If you need to fix an email
address, click on Edit My Groups to see all of the email addresses
that you signed up with and to update them.

Follow the instructions, and your messages won't bounce anymore.
Verify that you have a valid, working email address with your account.

This goes specifically for those that do not have a yahoo email
address. For some reason or another, non-yahoo email addresses seem to
be bouncing more and more lately.

The message from THE Yahoo Group Team is below.

Thanks,

Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX

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Bouncing Member Clean Up


If you've noticed a change in the total number of members in your
group, don't fret; we're cleaning up long time bouncing members. In
the first phase of this clean up we're removing just email-only group
members whose email addresses have been bouncing for more than a year.



In the next phase of the clean up we'll focus on web-access members
whose emails have been bouncing for more than a year. If you have
members that fit this description encourage them to update their
membership with a valid email address.

*** Additional Clarification ***
Because there seems to be some confusion, I wanted to clarify that
during the first phase of this clean up, we are just removing
email-only members whose emails have been bouncing for more than a
year (which means these members wouldn't have seen a message for over
a year). If a member is reading emails online within the group, they
are web-access members and won't be affected in this first phase. The
problem we're facing is that the sheer number of long time bouncers is
causing a drag on the system, which is why we are doing this.

For those of you who have web-access members with bouncing email
addresses please help us to actively reach out to these users and
encourage them to select a valid email address.

I hope this helps to address the majority of your concerns.
Best,
Jami Heldt
Groups Community Manager