{"id":237,"date":"2003-11-01T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/11\/yahoo_mail_spam_explosion\/"},"modified":"2003-11-01T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T19:28:26","slug":"yahoo_mail_spam_explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/01\/yahoo_mail_spam_explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Mail Spam Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it just me or is everybody else getting bombarded with spam on their Yahoo! Mail accounts? It seems like ever since they announced their ‘new spam measures<\/a>‘ the spam has at least doubled. I’m now getting about 200 spams a day. Every time I go into my account I have to empty the bulk mail folder because I’m running out of storage space. This is enough to make me want to give up on e-mail.<\/p>\n

I have a couple of theories on what’s happening here. Either the spammers have taken Yahoo!’s dummy e-mail address ploy as a challenge or Yahoo! has tweaked the basic filtering to ‘encourage’ people to upgrade to the paid Mail Plus which has ‘improved spam guard’. (Why do I think it’s the latter?)<\/p>\n

I’m just glad that my real e-mail address (through my school’s alumni association) barely gets any spam at all (there I go jinxing myself). I feel bad for people who get this much spam in their main e-mail account. Yahoo! is now as bad as HotMail used to be… I guess you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me or is everybody else getting bombarded with spam on their Yahoo! Mail accounts? It seems like ever since they announced their ‘new spam measures‘ the spam has at least doubled. I’m now getting about 200 spams a day. Every time I go into my account I have to empty the bulk… Continue reading Yahoo! Mail Spam Explosion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":316,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/25\/yahoo_swings_back_at_googles_gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":237,"position":0},"title":"Yahoo! 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