guardian.co.uk — The problem arose when Yahoo decided as an anti-spamming measure to stop any emails going through the servers, which it runs for its partner BT, that did not have a matching BT/Yahoo address in the From: field
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wyttenMay 16, 2008
***SPAM***
celebvoyMay 16, 2008
"F**KING THING SUCKS"
blanktargetMay 16, 2008
gmail's spam filter is much better. Granted I get boatloads of spam a day but it all goes into that folder I never dare to open.
sandiegodudeMay 16, 2008
Psh, Yahoo "anti-spam" I love it... My girl has a yahoo account she set up before she met me. She gets like 150+ spam messages a day. She wanted to know why she got so much while she only ever used it for friends.... so I went through her settings with her. Turns out they have "List my email in the yahoo directory" enabled by default on account creation, and her, not being all that computer literate, never unchecked it.I'm slowly getting her hooked on gmail. She's already moved all of her friends over there, its just a small matter of time before she completely abandons yahoo's crapware email.Oh by the way. Have to love a site that tries to shove their toolbar down your throat when you sign into their email as well. I had to train her to stop clicking "yes" when she went to check her email on my 'puters. Kept finding that god damned yahoo bar on my Firefox!edit - wow, 5 minute edit time now huh? nice subtle interface change digg!
getisboyMay 16, 2008
Who cares? No one uses Yahoo.
squiretoadMay 16, 2008
I think this a MOST Excellent idea. No one should be able to put "their own domain" in an email's return address line. It should be the actual email address of the sender. Otherwise it's almost invariably fraudulent, a spammer's bogus and deceptive return address, and the cause of most of the grief in the email channels today.To put it bluntly, screw you and your wanting to put ANYTHING but your real, valid, authenticated email address in the From: line.(In fact, Yahoo/BT were being even kinder than I. They only expected the BT / Yahoo domain, not the sender's actual email address. I wouldn't permit even that.)Don't like it? Go take your mailing somewhere else. And to hell with you.Yahoo's only error? In not notifying their users beforehand. That was bad, very bad.As for the spammers they inconvenienced: my heart bleeds. Oh yeah.
dxggMay 16, 2008
*buzz*Wrong again! I've had this account since they started handing them out, and I use it every day. No spam. Nothing. Zilch.
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