RE: Yahoo abuse

[Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com>]

They were likely spammed out of existence.

Half of the time our abuse people spend is wading through the spam at the abuse@ addresses =)

Kind of ironic ;-)

You can't really use anti-spam tech on there because people are literally forwarding you spam ;-)

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: John Peach [mailto:john-nanog () johnpeach com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:47 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Yahoo abuse

Damn forms; whatever happened to abuse@ addresses?



On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:39:20 -0700
Jaren Angerbauer <jarenangerbauer () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:54 AM, John Peach <john-nanog () johnpeach com>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to get Yahoo abuse to recognize that they're
> > hosting a phishing site? All I can ever get back from them is
> > boilerplate telling me they know how frustrating it is to get spam,
> > that it did not originate from them and how to read the headers. Not
> > half as frustrating as their ignorance.
>
> Not sure which Yahoo form you are filling out.  The phishing complaint
> I submitted got a pretty quick response:
>
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/forms/phishing.html
>
> --Jaren


-- 
John