I can't answer your specific question but a number of years ago I
created a Yahoo account which required the creation of a Yahoo email
address. I have never used that email address nor have I divulged it to
anyone. Oddly enough, thousands of spam email addresses land in that
Yahoo email account. I can only assume that Yahoo routinely sells email
addresses indiscriminately... not caring if they're delivering those
email addresses to spammers. The only other alternative is that somehow
Yahoo's security at the time was so lax that spammers were able to hack
into their servers and grab millions of Yahoo email addresses.
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Mike
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On 4/17/2014 11:13 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
Stephen, thanks for your generous reply, and your insights. It does
seem to me, though, that when megabucks are riding on additional
bandwidth, and if Yahoo is serious about controlling spam, they might
start by putting some resources behind putting their own house in
order. Someone, maybe it was you, posted on this forum earlier that
perhaps 90% or more of spam with a yahoo.com origin (or one of their
international DNs) actually _does_ come from Yahoo and that their
response to abuse notifications is abysmal to nonexistent. So it looks
to me as if one of two things is happening here. Either the right hand
doesn't know what the left hand is doing (or not doing), or this is a
blatant, cynical attack on network neutrality designed to push people
toward Yahoo's own list service. Has anyone seen or heard any figures
on how much this DMARC fiasco has cost Yahoo in terms of the number of
email end-users who have left their service? Someone mentioned that it
was substantial enough to probably get their attention.
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