Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:35:56 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | [OT] Re: SPAM |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:45:51AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Hello list, > Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that > they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is > the condition upon which users get "free" service. However, > they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This > means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your > wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately > be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc. > Be forewarned. > > I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if > email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to > send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40 > SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE > the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com, > but it's a logical black hole.
well, otherwise they wouldn't have something to fight, together with M$ and AOL ...
> Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are > paranoid! > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips). > Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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