The Guardian: Yahoo downgrades antispam measure after causing BT email chaos
This seems like something that should have been rolled out in a ‘log only’ mode for a day or two to see how much traffic it would affect.
The idea in general isn’t bad, but they probably should have counted how many different domains a given customer IP address sent as in a day and then only hit the ones that used an abnormally high number.
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