Comments on: Yahoo! Mail Beefs Up Its Anti-Spam Support

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:05:33 +0000

Yahoo’s spam filter seems to work mostly pretty good for me. Cashfiesta seems to be coming up a lot lately.

The one thing I wish Yahoo would do is let me create a rule to automatically delete emails that come in with dates in the future. I go through my spam folder once/week to make sure there isn’t anything I missed. It is annoying to have to seem 100+ emails with dates that are 1 week-40 years in the future. Let me automatically delete them!

By: LindaCarol

LindaCarol — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:02:10 +0000

For Larry H. ~
Thank you SO much for the information. You have told me more than ANYONE I know. I will check the addresses in my Spam folder, then add them to the ‘blocked’ file. I sure hope that will do it for all those SPAM letters. Here I was hoping that I WAS RICH, but….no such luck.. Oh well, I AM rich when it comes to having good friends and e-friends like you all. Thank you, again. You are most kind, and definately a Gentleman!

LindaCarol

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:01:51 +0000

I’d like to know what happened. Until about 10 days ago I was getting 120 emails per day into my Spam folder, and only about 1 in my Inbox. Suddenly I am getting 20 – 40 spam per day in my Inbox. Is this the new technology at work?

By: eric

eric — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:16:57 +0000

I’ve seen an order-of-magnitude increase in spam in the last week. I’ve had the yahoo
email account since 2000 and maybe 1-2 spams per week were getting past the filter.

Sometime about a week ago it increased to about 7 per day. The ads are mostly for
some online pharmacy (many with the word viagra) but are each from different
originating email addresses.

By: Elle

Elle — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:58:18 +0000

I’ve had my main Yahoo account for about 3 years, and I very rarely get any spam. In contrast, I get *ridiculous* amounts of spam in my Outlook account, and a smallish amount in my Gmail account. Hotmail, forget it, I just had to abandon my old Hotmail account to the spam.

I’ve always wondered how Yahoo does such a good job of spam filtering, actually. Especially for a free service, I’m very pleased with the low level of spam. Thanks, Yahoo!

By: Philport

Philport — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:07:41 +0000

Lots of complaints about a FREE service. Why not go elsewhere for your mail service?

By: Philport

Philport — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:02:46 +0000

I have never, in any email inbox, received the typical “you have won millions” or ” cash my check”, etc. email.

Guess I’m just lucky!

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:09:24 +0000

You know, Yahoo is pushing all these new services and features, but the basic rudimentary service are going to pot. I can no longer permanebtly save a draft – once I pull it up and send it, it is no longer in drafts. That is different from before. And even worse, I’m finding that some saved drafts just vanish from the saved drafts box. I just typed a letter fiftteen minutes ago, saved it, went back two minutes later and it was no longer there. Miserable service. I tried the paid level of membership several months ago and dropped it after two months or so. If Yahoo wants new paid members start also doing the basics well again – it wasn’t like that in the past.

By: manosh

manosh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:11:56 +0000

I agree with you

By: VOXmail

VOXmail — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:39:01 +0000

@bollettino gennaio 2009…

Primo articolo della serie @bollettino, con la quale vi terremo aggiornati sui principali eventi riguardanti il mondo della posta elettronica avvenuti nelle ultime settimane.

Gennaio 2009 è stato ricco di novità importanti:

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