On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:50:23 -0400, Tim Tapio wrote:
> I have found that when I filtered out yahoo.com addresses, I cut my
> spam in half.  When I contacted Yahoo, they give me the shrugged
> shoulders and "there's nothing we can do" response.  I no longer
> subscribe to any of the lists on Yahoo...unfortunate...but either
> that or I get a hundred offers for drugs, sexual enhancements and
> porn sites....
>
> Thanks but no thanks...

You setup your privacy settings wrong (or didn't set them at all). I'm
a member of about 20 Yahoo groups (using several separate email
accounts so I can track spam) and get zero spam in them.
No spam is one of the things I actually LIKE about Yahoo groups. They
munge your email address when you post so no bots can harvest the
messages. The Yahoo "spam problem" is FUD, in my experience.

I get much more spam from people who have harvested my email address from
the PIClist...

Matt Pobursky

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