Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

[mark seiden-via mac <mis () seiden com>]

that could occur when
a. student machines are botted (for institutions not blocking outbound  
port 25)
b. student and alumni accounts are compromised by phishers

(both of these just for the purposes of sending spam from well  
connected, reputable institutions.)

and then consumers really do complain...

i'm told (not just by yahoo insiders) that the forms at

postmaster.yahoo.com

actually do work, eventually.


On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Christ .. Yahoo did say "complaints".  And it can take a very low
> > level of complaints before a block goes into place - especially for
> > low volume (corporate etc) mailservers.
>
> I don't think this is Yahoo reacting to spam complaints because a  
> large
> number of sites (many universities, for instance) are being affected  
> by
> this problem at the same time.
>
> Tony.
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