Hey Lenny, I beg to differ! I have both Gmail and Yahoo accounts! I have a high volume of emails in both accounts mostly from the various groups I subscribe to such as this group. Yahoo employs Domain Keys to filter most spam. A lot of spammers spoof their email address to avoid detection. Domain keys verifies if it really came from let's say hotmail.com and if not it goes into the bulk folder! But I found out if you hit the Spam key and Spam Guard is activated, you may get one or two more similar spams before Spam Guard kicks in. I think they may do this in case you may have hit the spam button in error. If spam does get through and it is a Yahoo email address and it passed the Domain keys I forward the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . That always gets rapid action on their part.
With Gmail, I was getting all sorts of Spam until I setup my own filters. Yahoo only allows 15 filters while at Gmail I have setup more than 50! And more choice of actions! A lot of the Spam I receive come from the groups I belong to both Yahoo and Google. Usually if the offender had a Yahoo address and I reported him/her to Yahoo, Yahoo takes almost immediate action. If however the offender had a Gmail address and I reported it to the Gmail abuse email address, no action was taken. I had one guy with a Gmail address spamming about 25 of the groups I belong to and as often as 5 times a day for each group. I complained to Gmail many times and no action was taken. So I upped it a notch, at all the groups he was spamming to I would set my email address to my Gmail account. I then created a filter to forward the spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then delete the message. Within a week he was history. Another use I have for filters is for those who cross-post to various groups. For example, I belong to about 6 humor groups. Sometimes a guy will post a joke to 2 or more of these groups. I don't want to see the same jokes 5 times so I'll filter his email address along with 4 of the groups and have Gmail to simply delete them but not report them as Spam. The bottom line is now I get about 2 spams or other unwanted emails a day from either account which is not bad considering I get between 600 to 800 emails from my combined accounts. --- On Mon, 7/7/08, LNVTM1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: LNVTM1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Y!M] Spam and vulgar messages To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 11:12 PM Start using http://www.Gmail.com instead of Yahoo mail. Yahoo has horrible spam filters. I rarely get any spam in my inbox through my Gmail accounts and I get hundreds of messages a day. With my one Yahoo account, I only get 1-2 emails a day and 5-6 spam emails come through with the 1-2 good ones. As always, with any email service, it's good to check your spam folder daily to make sure good mail didn't get put into the spam folder by accident. Lenny Vasbinder FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of larisanageli Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Spam and vulgar messages I continually get vulgar requests coming into my mail. Most times the email used doesn't match my name exactly such as my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:larisanageli%40yahoo.com> but it will be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:larisagraig%40yahoo.com> . The messages in the subject line will be ones such as "come watch me shower", "I just bought sex toys, watch me use them at....". I am embarrassed by them and now I am starting to become irritated and angry over them. They don't come from the same persons. Does anyone know if I inadvertly invited such messages and if there is any way, except to change my address, to get them to leave me alone? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.6/1538 - Release Date: 7/7/2008 7:40 AM ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe from Yahoo_Messenger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Normal to Digest mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Normal to NoMail mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Digest or NoMail to Normal mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Write to the Moderators and Owner of the List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Suggestions for improvements to the List should be sent to the "owner" address listed above.Yahoo! Groups Links
