Yahoo lets a lot of spam through, but it adds a non-standard header that lets you trash it automatically: "X-YahooFilteredBulk: 210.104.163.190"
The IP address is the originator, of course. Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Matt Grimaldi > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:24 AM > To: Brin-L > Subject: Spam and free email providers > > > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > IIRC, to have access to Yahoo mail via POP and SMTP, you have > > to accept a certain amount of their spam, but it's easy to > > filter out. And their spam filtering (for others' spam, not > > their own) seems to work very well. > > > > Hotmail seems like it's given up entirely on blocking spam > any more, I've been getting 5-20 spam messages a day on my > hotmail account, while the yahoo account has 0-3 per day. > > -- Matt > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
