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
>
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