[NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-05 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody, "This is an automated response; please do not reply to this email as replies will not be answered. To report spam, security, or abuse-related issues involving Yahoo!'s services, please go to http://abuse.yahoo.com. Thank you, Yahoo! Customer Care" You go there and find no tool

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-05 Thread Kurt @ VR-FX
Hey Pete, Sorry to hear you frustrations! Yeah - SPAM has pretty much been out there on the Web for almost as long as the Web has been in existance. Sure - its a totally PITA - and not much you can personally do about it. Although, Personally - I have seen a drop in spam over time - so I tend

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-05 Thread Pete Theisen
Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: > Hey Pete, > > Sorry to hear you frustrations! Yeah - SPAM has pretty much been out > there on the Web for almost as long as the Web has been in existance. > Sure - its a totally PITA - and not much you can personally do about it. > Although, Personally - I have seen a drop

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-05 Thread Kurt @ VR-FX
Oh Crap - that totally Sucks Pete! Sorry to hear that e-mail address did you NO Good! I guess you can just ignore almost ALL that I wrote below - as I guess its pretty much useless. Oh well... -K- On 2/5/2012 6:33 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: > Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: >> Hey Pete, >> >> Sorry to hear yo

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-05 Thread Pete Theisen
Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: > Oh Crap - that totally Sucks Pete! Sorry to hear that e-mail address did > you NO Good! I guess you can just ignore almost ALL that I wrote below - > as I guess its pretty much useless. Oh well... Hi Kurt, Guess I should have flagged it [OT] rather than [NF]. Now if there

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Alan Bourke
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Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Hill
IIRC they still own Flikr. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Are Yahoo still going? > -- >  Alan Bourke >  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscripti

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Michael Oke, II
My wife still has and uses an @yahoo.com email address, so I'd guess so. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Feb 6, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Paul Hill wrote: > IIRC they still own Flikr. > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:18 AM,

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/6/2012 11:13 AM, Michael Oke, II wrote: > My wife still has and uses an @yahoo.com email address, so I'd guess so. I don't think they're going away anytime soon. Sure, they're not the Big Mahoff that they used to be, but they're not near dead, afaik. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solu

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Fred Taylor
I still have a rocketmail account that goes through Yahoo. I've had the rocketmail account since '94 and Yahoo took them over about 6 or 7 years ago. Since then, the spam there has been unbearable so I use that mainly as my honeypot account. Fred On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:19 AM, MB Software Sol

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Grigore Dolghin
Same here. Whenever sites ask for my email address, I give them the yahoo one. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > I still have a rocketmail account that goes through Yahoo. I've had the > rocketmail account since '94 and Yahoo took them over about 6 or 7 years > ago. Since th

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/6/2012 12:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > Same here. Whenever sites ask for my email address, I give them the yahoo > one. lol! You'd think Yahoo would take a tough stance on spam as it would (or *should*) lower their costs by reducing throughput traffic of spam crap. No? -- Mike Babc

Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory

2012-02-06 Thread Michael Madigan
nt: Monday, February 6, 2012 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Yahoo a spam factory On 2/6/2012 12:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > Same here. Whenever sites ask for my email address, I give them the yahoo > one. lol!  You'd think Yahoo would take a tough stance on spam as it would (or