Huh??? On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:54:50 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > BTW, don't bother to reply by describing a work-around for me. > I am no longer interested in doing any Yahoo stuff after having > heard so much disgusting news about their spamming and porn > sponsorship and hosting.
I've been a Yahoo member for some time now, since Webring moved there [It's moved out again, btw], and I've had no problem with spamming from Yahoo ... even though I have the POP3 stuff set up and agreed it was OK to get stuff from them. And, although they took over Geocity sometime, Yahoo doesn't knowingly host porn sites and certainly doesn't sponsor them. Anything that is even slightly off can be complained about, and they'll shut down places and accounts so quick you don't have time to blink. Yahoo can't help it spammers put false Yahoo e-dresses in their headers or as their opt out" e-dresses; if they could, they'd love to have the ability to stop it because it's hard on their servers to keep sending back messages with Daemon notices of "no such user." On a number of occasions I've found that spam didn't originate on Yahoo, but that the 'service address' was on Yahoo; each time I've advised Yahoo and often even before they've had time to read *my* message that 'service account' has been closed down tight. They take spam and spammers seriously because it puts a strain on their resources, which costs them both money and good will of valid users. As to what appears on websites set up through Yahoo or any ISP, none of them can be certain what is on all of them. I'm sure that if certain sites get a LOT of traffic showing up on their logs that they will attempt to check the site out, just to see what the big draw is. But even small ISPs like mine [small compared to Yahoo] cannot know everything that is on every page of every website. I could set up page filled with firm buns topping well muscled thighs of naked males, and provide others with a direct URL and the ISP would probably never find it since there was no link from my primary website. Unless someone complained that I had "porn" on my site, my ISP wouldn't know ... and although I live near "Send that Hustler hustler to jail" Cincinnati, if the naked males on my site were all obviously adult males, my ISP wouldn't do a thing to me unless I was making money on a commercial site ... and then they'd start billing me $70 a month and set me up with a separate domain and website for those pictures for another $25 bucks a year. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
