Same here. And for yahoogroups, i use a special address, with settings for no partners, no yahoo spam. It gets VERY little spam, all of which get caught as they are not from yahoogroups.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Pepper > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam/Rules Editng > > > 99% of the spam we receive from Yahoo addresses are simply spoofed > addresses, not really coming from legitimate Yahoo accounts. > > tom > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "IMail @ Carrz-Fox-Fire Promotions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam/Rules Editng > > > | I am probably speaking out of line here, But here goes anyway. > | > | Yahoo.com to me I have received within the last year over several > | 100,000 Spam e-mails to all accounts. > | I am not a big e-mail provider (Not yet anyway) but I do handle all Spam > | that comes to my server and to my customers. > | They send there Spam to me, and I send it then to "Spam Cop". > | On to this message................ > | > | Yahoo.com has never been in none of these messages that I have > | received. Only on 1 occasion. > | I ran a test. Set up a dummy account on my server. Went onto > | Groups.Yahoo.com and basically allowed > | To receive mail from the "Yahoo" Partners. In my findings, On this Dummy > | account, > | It received over 50 e-mails in a single week. Though this account was > | not given to no one else. > | I knew that it was mailing "Spam" that was populated from the Yahoo > | Groups sign-up site. > | > | Not really knowing how other IMail Admin's are receiving Spam from > | yahoo. Could it be that they > | Customers may have "not knowing" but signed up to receive these messages > | from Yahoo? > | > | As out of the 50 e-mails "Spam" that was received, about 30 of them > | was from Yahoo. The remainder > | Was from there partners. > | > | If this message is out of line, please let me know. > | Also, I am not taking up for Yahoo. I am just wondering, as I have not > | seen no "Actual Yahoo Produced Spam" > | Since the Dummy e-mail account was killed. > | > | Thank you for letting me post this. Hoping know one takes it the wrong > | way. > | > | Wayne > | > | > | > | To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > | List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ | To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
