Dear Yahoo! Groups Members,

Due to a recent outbreak of computer viruses being transmitted via email messages on the internet, Yahoo! Groups is experiencing delays in delivering group messages. Additionally, a recent virus is generating emails which appear to come from Yahoo! Groups. These messages state that "your email account has been temporarily disabled", or that "our main mailing server will be temporarily unavailable for the next two days" and more. These messages are not official notifications from Yahoo! but rather are generated by a virus on another person's computer.

To improve performance, and to help reduce the spread of viruses to our users, Yahoo! Groups has had to temporarily reject some messages. Based on an advisory posted by a leading anti-virus company, Groups will temporarily reject messages with the following subject lines:

• test
• hi
• hello
• Mail Delivery System
• Mail Transaction Failed
• Server Report
• Status
• Error
• E-mail account disabling warning.
• E-mail account security warning.
• Email account utilization warning.
• Important notify about your e-mail account.
• Notify about using the e-mail account.
• Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
• Warning about your e-mail account.

If you have received a message rejection notice with a link to this page, but did not attempt to post a message to your group, your computer may have been infected. If you are confident that your computer is not infected but your message was rejected, please try posting a new message with a subject line different than those listed above.

We can assure you that this is only a temporary measure and hope to restore message delivery to normal as soon as possible.


The Yahoo! Groups Team