The following error message recently started showing up in my logs: "Error occurred submitting sitemap to Yahoo!: 403.
Request: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://d..."

Apparently Yahoo is now requiring you to sign in to submit a sitemap. Maybe there should be fields to input your credentials so sitemaps can still be submitted automatically.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I don't see that. See the results of the link you've given below. It is known that if you submit to Yahoo too frequently that they will give you a 403 error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Success xmlns="urn:yahoo:api">
  <Message>Update notification has successfully submitted.</Message>
</Success><!-- ws13.ydn.gq1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Mon Mar 22 06:14:51 PDT 2010 -->