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Why can’t a user get a decent answer from yahoo regarding the anti-spam system on our email?
ByI’ve gone to abuse@yahoo.com and support in the email section, but cannot get an answer as to why yahoo continues to allow email from the Internet get through their spam filters when the domain that the emails is “supposed” be coming from is actually hosted at Yahoo…….the smtp servers should be smart enough to drop the message. Who at Yahoo can actually read my question, and provide an answer other than the “canned” response?
4 Comments
February 27th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Most spammers use one of the email addresses that they are sending a batch to as the FROM address. There may be 50 addresses in the BCC field and one of them is picked as the FROM and one as the TO address. It is a valid address so there is no way for Yahoo to screen it out.
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February 27th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Because their answer is itself a SPAM
February 27th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
I understand your frustrating issue with spam in a mailbox. Yahoo will probably always give u a candid answer, I would ask some developers who know how spam is created and how it is manipulated and sent..
But just like in reality no matter how many times you submit a do not call, or request to stop sending catalongs… they often keep sending them anyway. So just as you would physcially toss out stuff that gets thru… I guess a FREE email service cannot keep up with the millions of accounts that are used and created each day. IF it is a problem , I would suggest going with a service that you PAY for that has less accounts and more security, with advanced options to do so.
You get what u pay for, and right now the price is FREE… need I say more…?
February 27th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Someone asked how spam is created and you are blaming Yahoo for spam it DOESN’T create, or “allow!” According to the experts:
Spammers have automated scripts that send emails out using a “dictionary attack”. This means their script just sends out tons of emails to various combinations of numbers and letters at different domains. Kind of like if you just start calling phone numbers starting with 100-100-0000 then 100-100-0001, etc. They don’t know what is a valid email address and what is not. When you reply to one (try to unsubscribe, or replying back telling them how you hate them), you are now confirming your email address is a real, live email address. They have special lists of those, because they know they’re guaranteed real. They then sell those lists to other spammers at a premium. Then you get more spam!