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- krewl, on 05/16/2008, -2/+28Without spam, I could have never earned a degree while adding 1-3 inches to my online drugstore.
- xdevit, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12Funny thing is, I ran my spam from my now abandoned yahoo account through a script that then put all the emails user, name, address, and resolved ip into a database. I found that most was from the same ip that would just change their domain every other day. I shot an email to yahoo about it and never got a reply or saw those IPs, domains blocked.
- blanktarget, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8gmail'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.
- semjaza, on 05/16/2008, -1/+9There's a point at which there is too much protection and it results in a degradation of service due to too many false-positives.
- duk0r, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Yahoo was good in the old days, but not so much anymore.
- dxgg, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7What is this "spam" you speak of?
- Gmail user - CYG101, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5So thats why i have been getting triple the spam on my Yahoo account lately. I should have moved to Gmail ages ago...
- bronxelf, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4The short version.
Yahoo is in partnership with BT.
Yahoo implements anti spam feature without telling anyone.
Problem: If your email address, even though legitimate, ended with anything other than yahoo.com or bt.net, Yahoo's new spam device tossed your mail when you tried to send mail from your computer.
Rocks fall, everybody dies. - VerticalEvent, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Good idea in theory - BT/Yahoo compiles a list of valid e-mail addresses in the form of name@valid, to reduce people trying to cover their tracks with fake e-mail addresses. What they didn't think of is the number of possible valid e-mail addresses, that are not commonly used or are privately used, like e-mails from small companies.
Oh, Yahoo... why can't you just adapt a better Spam detection algorithm? - NJank, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4no, Gmail's spam has tripled too, now that they've successfully hacked a lot of Google's protections.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5My company got hit by this. Not only would you get a 553 but we got put on the Spamhaus XBL which in turn put us on the AOL and Yahoo blacklist. We ended up changing IP's and updating reverse DNS after building a new mail server. It was a pain in the ass but it worked and it was easier then trying to get off the AOL blacklist.
- fjf314, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3Yeah, Gmail's spam has been terrible. If nothing else, at least it all gets accurately filtered into my Spam folder...
- PacketPaul, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Yahoo seems to block about 50%+ of the e-mails from mailing list discussion groups causing the mail servers to queue the messages. The load from all of the queued yahoo mail was so great I started dropping e-mail address from the domain yahoo.com from my mailing list.
The bottom line is ... use GMAIL! - peestandingup, on 05/16/2008, -2/+4Yahoo's spam detection has always sucked donkey balls.
- dxgg, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2*buzz*
Wrong again! I've had this account since they started handing them out, and I use it every day. No spam. Nothing. Zilch. - sandiegodude, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Psh, 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! - SteveMax, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Passing the email through a full Bayesian filter needs MUCH more CPU time than just dumping everything that doesn't match a simple pattern. They just implemented the cheapest algorithm.
- mattbenson, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1"Yahoo spam protection is a joke."
Agree with this statement - bsmang, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1I won't even let someone give me a yahoo address to reach them by because it's too likely that I won't be able to. But at the same time, usually more than 90% of mail coming into my system is spam, so what can ya do?
- troydoogle7, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1BT has always been the same way- you had to apply to use their servers.
At least its better than godaddy that just blacklists anyone who has a dynamic ip address ftom bt from time to time. - hpymondays, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Yahoo mail is notorious for its large percentage of false positives, i.e. legitimate mail that goes to your bulk mail folder. I have even seen legitimate mail going to the bulk folder even after you classified the sender as "not spam". On the other hand, plenty of real spam gets to your mailbox. As a webmaster, we started a drive to persuade all our users to switch to Gmail.
- Ducksa, on 05/16/2008, -3/+4Read this article twice. Still no idea what is going on.
- radu79, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Yahoo spam protection is a joke.
For about a month I am getting "Canadian Pharmacy" e-mails (Inbox).
I got a PayPal phishing mail in the Inbox, but 2 real PayPal e-mails in the Bulk folder.
Every few days I get "add inches to your copulating organ" junk..
In fact, about 1/3 of the spam I get gets in my inbox. And some of those junk filters should be obvious, but not for Yahoo. - getisboy, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2Who cares? No one uses Yahoo.
- Ducksa, on 05/16/2008, -2/+2HAHA IT NEVER GETS OLD
- fjf314, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1If you're brave enough to open your Spam folder, you'll probably see a lot of it.
- SquireToad, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1I 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. - ThirdPrize, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1Whats that? Your boyfriend?
- Ducksa, on 05/16/2008, -2/+2HAHA NEVER GETS OLD
- amazdeals, on 12/23/2008, -0/+0http://www.besthdtvdeal.com
- phanthommania, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0http://www.greenleaftoy.com
- juliereader, on 02/10/2009, -0/+0yeah! thats what happens when you start taking things more seriously than it needed.
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- wytten, on 05/16/2008, -4/+0***SPAM***
- freedombob, on 05/16/2008, -6/+1har, har, youtube myspace and ill google your yahoo.....
- newsreader123, on 05/16/2008, -7/+1Yahoo sucks!!!!!
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