I just wanted to give as many people as I could a heads up about
this. If you already know about it then okay I'm sorry to bother you
again, but I think it's important this is out and open knowledge to
as many people concerned as possible.
Several people, my dad included, have informed me recently that the e-
mail service that is provided with BT Yahoo! broadband has a very
poor SPAM filter system that is indiscriminately stopping e-mails and
filtering them out of people's inboxes as 'Bulk Mail' The 'Bulk Mail'
folder is flushed every 30 days and these legitimate e-mails are
lost, for good. Among things that have been found in the Bulk Mail
box on accounts I have seen are order confirmations from online
stores like Tesco and Amazon, e-mails from Banks and Building
Societies, and e-mail from online services like eBay and PayPal.
The answer is simple. Log into your BT Yahoo! webmail page and turn
the filter off, as soon as possible. This is not a joke, or an over
reaction, legitimate e-mail is being trashed here.
Oh and while your at it send BT Yahoo! customer services a message
stating how incredibly annoying this is. I fail to understand why
SpamCop, Apple, Google, Pipex, Demon and 1000s of other ISPs and e-
mail providers can efficiently remove SPAM without upset and Yahoo!,
who are one of the biggest e-mail providers on the web, can't. It's
stupifying and frankly stupid.
As I said I just wanted to let as many people know as I could. If it
helps one person on the list or elsewhere then it's worth my time and
everyone elses.
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And for that matter never let a Yahoo! machine loose on a human's e-
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