--- On Sun, 8/30/09, John Goubeaux <john@ucsb.edu> wrote:

> I manage a large mail system for the University of
> California and regularly ( for the last few years) have seen
> a lot of mail outbound from our servers to yahoo.com
> addresses getting delayed, sometimes for the better part of
> the day. Meaning it gets queued on our end until they accept
> it.

If so, wouldn't those mails get stamped with delayed acceptance
time and would have been added to the top of my mailbox on the order
from which they were received? I am guessing that they were queued
by Yahoo. But if you did see that your outbound mails got queued
on your end that's a different story.

You are absolutely right that they have no obligation to me for
the free service. It is unfortunate that Yahoo is kind of defunct
now. I wasn't too surprised that they bent their back under
pressure from China. I often criticize China through Yahoo mails
too. I have never been to China and probably will not in the future.

David