>So block them. The reason that people don't is that there are a lot of >real users mixed in with the spammers, although the spam-to-real ratio has >been increasing to the point that I expect people will start giving up on >them and telling their users to go get their free mail someplace that's >better run.
And that would be... who? While we are at it, ObListManagers: who would you recommend for a competitor to Yahoo Groups? The competing service needs to offer all of Yahoo's major features: Web signup, unsubscribing, email archiving, options to read email on the web, via digest, or regular mail (and a webpage where the user can make or change these options) and options to allow or reject attachments. And, for free (ad supported OK, optional payment to have an ad-free list also OK). (I've been telling people to get away from Hotmail for ages, and Yahoo was one of the services I used to recommend. Who now?) jc
