I belong to a couple of very minor yahoo groups, and also have a yahoo
address, and have not gotten spam from either. Maybe I should join a
bigger group to get lucky?
Bill
gerard wrote:
> David,
>
> You were lucky somehow... my yahoo email address got nothing BUT SPAM.
> That kept me from getting SPAM at this address for a while. I now get
> 30 or 40 a day and I'd say that it is a result of my Yahoo list
> groups affiliation. My ISP finally implemented SPAm filters so at
> least they don;t show up in my in-box. I do have to review it every
> few days for "real" mail as sometime messages from listmembers or
> other people get quarantined.
>
> Gerard
>
> At 10:30 AM -0500 7/2/03, David Lieb wrote:
>
>> Thanks Bill,
>> I was just thinking about signing onto the Yahoo list, but that
>> changed my
>> mind for me. I get very little spam on this particular address and I
>> like it
>> that way.
>> Interestingly enough, I had an email address with Yahoo and I never
>> got any
>> spam on it at all. None. Nada. Zip. I really think that it is not
>> Yahoo that
>> is selling your addresses, but someone else monitoring list traffic and
>> generating lists from that. Be nice to find him...
>> David Lieb
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