Bob wrote: > Huge amounts of SPAM used to fall into people's inboxes and in many > cases this led to their computers being compromised. Yahoo and other > ISPs are trying to minimise the chances of this happening and should > be applauded for that. Yes, it didn't used to happen. It does now > and for good reason.
Bob is quite right. I use a disposable Yahoo web-mail based address for my postings on uk.rec.waterways (and only for that list). The address very soon started to get hit by spam (which shows that the address was harvested from uk.rec) and Yahoo's spam filter whacks most of it straight into the spam folder. Just occasionally one gets through into the inbox and I can designate it as spam myself (which helps with the training of Yahoo's spam filtering). Compared to the amount of spam I used to get on this tinyworld address I am heartily glad that spam filtering has improved so much. If Barry is using a web-based Yahoo address for his postings then any spam clearly shows as 'one new message' alongside the icon for the spam folder so it reminds you to look in and delete it if it is truly spam (or leave it for 30 days IIRC when it will automatically deleted). Roger
