Comments on: Unwanted Messages Getting in the Way?

By: Sara Savary

Sara Savary — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:11:19 +0000

Seems like nothing has been done to address ANY of these issues. What the hell am I paying for?

By: hugh

hugh — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:01:21 +0000

I would like to join the chorus of complaints about the existing spam system. The updates to Yahoo Mail are pretty but that’s about it. Pretty is nice. However, when every time I check my e-mail there are from two to ten new spams messages there or if I’m gone for a while 50 or more, it gets very frustrating. Sometimes there will be three in a row in the spam box from the SAME sender. As has been stated in this blog previously, there aren’t enough filters available or enough blocked addresses available.

It basically seems like the spam process simply blocks anyone who is NOT in your address book. I can’t think of anything any more elementary than that. What this does is that when someone who is not in your address book sends you an e-mail it goes to spam. What this means is that you can’t just delete or empty your spam mail. You have to at least pay cursory attention to what is in there to assure yourself that you don’t delete something you actually want. Very frustrating and time consuming when you get literally scores of spam per day.

And for the reader that gripped about us complaining because Yahoo was free, I upgraded quite some time ago to Yahoo Mail Plus and PAY for that and the spam situation has gotten worse.

As I said in the beginning, what we now have is pretty but just as ineffective at blocking spam than what we had before. The comparison to Outlook stops at the physical aspect because their spam filtering function in conjuction with Computer Associates Anti-Spam is light years ahead of what we are being offerred, nay, more accuratly described as being subjected to.

By: AL

AL — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:05:40 +0000

Why Don’t you all get 2 email addresses. 1 for close friends/family, accounts and important stuff and the other for messing around. That’s what I did. I get about 4-8 spam a day on my primary and about 50+ on my secondary.

By: john

john — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:19:10 +0000

Also, i will not pay you one penny for “enhanced spam blocking”. That is probably why you let spam come trough.

Also, your new mail stinks, i do not want to read tragic news headlines when i see my mail. I do not even read the news anymore cause it is all tragedy.

By: john

john — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:15:43 +0000

Dear yahoo,

Your email service is a joke. I have spam filters enabled yet i got 15 sex spam mails per day. I know these phrases have been flagged. How hard is it to block subjects like “cun*, teens, sex, cum, cam, etc..”
Now the spammers are setting up groups on yahoo, and spamming with invites. I just got 2 invites to groups called “view cams for free”

I am leaving your service, you can not stop the chat bots, you can not stop the spammers.

Also, i was just about to spend 100 bucks on your yahoo personals, but i see now that i will be flooded with spam, so i am opening a hotmail account and spending it at match.com

get a clue people

By: Ohadi Langis

Ohadi Langis — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:18:24 +0000

Why can’t Yahoo use the same Domain Keys technology on spam that spoofs as coming from Yahoo? I get dozens of spam emails a week to my Yahoo address that try to deceive that they are coming from Yahoo addresses. Just block the bad guys and only let email from “yahoo.com” come through that is genuine. If it will work for Ebay and PayPal why can’t it work for Yahoo email?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:58:57 +0000

Spammers often randomize their email addresses. But they usually use the same computer to generate those addresses. Why not block IP addresses or MAC addresses that have been identified as the source of excessive spam- if, say, over 1000 people had clicked: “This Is Spam”

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:54:52 +0000

Former_Girlfriend@Moveon.com LOL!!!

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:54:38 +0000

Lately it seems that the volume of spam has increased dramatically. This morning when I opened Yahoo mail, I had 181 spam msgs, and this was overnight. What’s going on with this????

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:39:50 +0000

I think Yahoo does a decent job of filtering spam. However, I only want to see messages from my contacts in my in box. Everything else should go to spam. Hotmail has this feature, why doesn’t Yahoo?.

I’m so annoyed with all the junk in my in box that does not come from my contact list, that I’m considering taking my money (I pay for yahoo mail service), and going back to hotmail.

YAHOO, are you listening!?!?!