On Friday 17 October 2008, Chris wrote:
>On Friday 17 October 2008 7:24 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >Today, it indicates yahoo.com.
>>
>> Which equates to the same thing. I did have a few addresses of known spam
>> emitters in my procmailrc, but found I had to remove one of those in spite
>> of it being responsible for about 200 spams a day. Seems that machine was
>> also the outbound sender for quite a few of the mailing lists yahoo
>> maintains.
>>
>> Nastygrams to yahoo of course are attracted to a black hole they feed all
>> mail addressed to 'postmaster' and 'admin', never to be seen by another
>> human who might have a quarter to call somebody who gives a $hit.
>
>Odd, I have no problems at all sending abuse messages to yahoo and I
> actually get replies, whether their honest ones or not I don't know but
> they do come in. For instance:
>
>From: Yahoo! New Zealand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply to: Yahoo! New Zealand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for writing to Yahoo! New Zealand.
>
>In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the
>Yahoo!Xtra account in question, as per our Terms of Service (TOS).
>
>From: Yahoo! Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply to: Yahoo! Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
>
>In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the
>Yahoo! account in question, as per our Terms of Service (TOS). For
>further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit:
>
>Note - I send all yahoo abuse reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] via a set of scripts I run that were written by
>Karsten Self.
Never ever got a reply from them, nor did the flood of spam go away till weeks
later. YMMV I guess. :)
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Cheers, Gene
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