[SpamCop-List] Yahoo's "Zoey" Slow On Uptake

[Michael Brennan]

I reported a Yahoo! mailbox to Yahoo's mail-abuse desk, since it was
being used to support the registration of a spammer's spamvertised URL. 
I sent them a copy of the SpamCop report, together with additional notes
showing the spammy URL's registration information (which was bogus and
undeliverable according to USPS) and the Yahoo! e-mail address.

Yahoo's abuse desk replied to the manual LART on the mailbox with an
autoack to the effect that the spamitem  hadn't come from them.  Which
was true, but that wasn't the complaint.

I replied instantly, suggesting they look again at the registration
information of the URL.  Either there was a Yahoo! e-mail address, or
there wasn't.  

Yahoo's "Zoey" sent me what appears to be a further autoack, which I
quote in part:

"Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

"It is possible for someone to forge an email address within an email 
message to make it appear to be deriving from a particular email 
address, when in reality it is not.  Unfortunately, this is an 
industry-wide problem.   

"Through the implementation of DomainKeys, a cryptographic email 
authentication solution, we are increasing protection against email 
forgery.  For more information about DomainKeys, please visit:

   http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys"


I'm glad to hear they're trying to do something about bogus Yahoo!
"from" lines, but that wasn't the issue, was it?

In all fairness, they have sent me other autoacks which appear to show
that they've grepped and grokked and actually done something about the
offending mailbox.

Lost in Autoack Land,

Michael