Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> This also pre-dates organized crime becoming heavily involved, and
> > pre-dates the obsession with browser exploits.  Back then a lot of spam was
> > sent by semi-legitimate marketers from the US.  These days all the bad guys
> > are out to get you to click on a single link.
>
> Right.  Back in the 90s spammers were trying to build their lists, and used
> fake opt outs to do so.  These days through a combination of web scraping
> and dictionary attacks, they have more addresses than they know what to do
> with.
>
> My advice to people these days is to unsub if a message is from someone
> you've corresponded with before, or if it looks like someone who is legit
> but clueless.  Then hit the spam button.


Of course, the browsploit issue means that clicking on ANY links in dubious
e-mail is highly unwise.