[SpamCop-List] Re: Yahoo spamming

[Spambo]

Barry & Iris McCanna wrote:
> 
> The bulk of our spam (and we get a lot) is from Yahoo addresses.   I am
> sure this is because we belong to several groups and we are also List
> Owners of another. Spammers also join groups, even small ones, drive people
> mad for a while and are either unsubscribed or leave.   Our list is
> restricted membership so we have to approve each member, but even this has
> problems.   Yahoo do nothing about this situation at all.  Almost
> impossible to get them to respond to mails.
> 
> The other worrying thing about Yahoo now is that within the bowels of their
> pages they admit to allowing access to quite a number of Spyware and Adware
> organisations.  For instance, every time a Yahoo page is visited, at least
> "DoubleClick" comes up as a cookie.  Luckily Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch nab
> these so none of them get onto our system.  Without protection some systems
> must be full of these cookies.
> 
> Iris McCanna
> (All outgoing messages certified virus free)


Just because an email says it came from a Yahoo account doesn't mean it
did, the From: is easily forged.  Yahoo & Hotmail have millions of
customers which makes it difficult for people to block everything from
those domains so spammers will often choose to use one of those domains in
their bogus return address.

Check through your options at Yahoo.  Even if you set things up NOT to
receive promotional email Yahoo has a history of resetting these options
in their favor.  You could find that your options page says you want
garbage from Yahoo and it's 'partners'.