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Date: 19 Dec 2006 02:11:45
From: Palooka
Subject: Answer this
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Why does so much of the crap on here originate from yahoo? Is there
something special there? A few months ago, in exasperation, I blocked all of
yahoo. Since then, I have commissioned a new laptop, and decided to start
again, rather than just re-import the old block list.
But now I'm coming close to just blocking all of yahoo again. Can anyone
explain what attraction yahoo has for spammers, and for the tedious "rigged"
brigade?
Thanks,
Palooka
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Date: 18 Dec 2006 18:18:45
From: Omaha8_Beach
Subject: Re: Answer this
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Palooka wrote:
> Why does so much of the crap on here originate from yahoo? Is there
> something special there? A few months ago, in exasperation, I blocked all of
> yahoo. Since then, I have commissioned a new laptop, and decided to start
> again, rather than just re-import the old block list.
>
> But now I'm coming close to just blocking all of yahoo again. Can anyone
> explain what attraction yahoo has for spammers, and for the tedious "rigged"
> brigade?
>
> Thanks,
> Palooka
Probably the relative ease in which they can create new accounts and
program bots and such for Yahoo!. The fact that yahoo doesn't seem to
want to 'police' their pages doesn't hurt too much either.
As an example, Yahoo used to allow user created chat rooms. However,
they stopped this after a guy met and raped an underaged girl through a
user created chat room, that, of course, was named something like
"underagegirloldermenhookup." Some of the user created rooms had
names even more explicit than that. Yahoo was aware of this, but felt
no need to stop it until they were sued. Now no user-created chat
rooms are allowed.
They could have solved, or at least decreased the problem dramatically
by just paying some guy $200/hr to delete user created chat rooms that
didn't meet certain guidelines (Yahoo sold advertisements via the chat
rooms so they did have a vested interested in maintaining chat room
traffic) as they were being created. This certainly wouldn't have
eliminate the presence of online predators but it at least would have
made it more difficult for them, and would allow the other, legitimate
user-created chat rooms to still exist.
Ken
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Date: 19 Dec
From: Nick Wool
Subject: Re: Answer this
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On Dec 19 2006 2:11 AM, Palooka wrote:
> Why does so much of the crap on here originate from yahoo? Is there
> something special there? A few months ago, in exasperation, I blocked all of
> yahoo. Since then, I have commissioned a new laptop, and decided to start
> again, rather than just re-import the old block list.
>
> But now I'm coming close to just blocking all of yahoo again. Can anyone
> explain what attraction yahoo has for spammers, and for the tedious "rigged"
> brigade?
>
> Thanks,
> Palooka
Hope you haven't block me, old chap. I use my Yahoo address here. If so, I
will miss so much your pearls of wisdom...:-)
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Date: 19 Dec 2006 02:38:50
From: Palooka
Subject: Re: Answer this
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"Nick Wool" <43079532@recpoker.com > wrote in message
news:1166494385$924003@recpoker.com...
>
> On Dec 19 2006 2:11 AM, Palooka wrote:
>
>> Why does so much of the crap on here originate from yahoo? Is there
>> something special there? A few months ago, in exasperation, I blocked all
>> of
>> yahoo. Since then, I have commissioned a new laptop, and decided to start
>> again, rather than just re-import the old block list.
>>
>> But now I'm coming close to just blocking all of yahoo again. Can anyone
>> explain what attraction yahoo has for spammers, and for the tedious
>> "rigged"
>> brigade?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Palooka
>
> Hope you haven't block me, old chap. I use my Yahoo address here. If so, I
> will miss so much your pearls of wisdom...:-)
>
Nick,
As you well know, I have no pearls of wisdom.
Even if I did, I might well hesitate before casting them amongst swine
(present company excepted of course :-)
Palooka
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Date: 19 Dec 2006 14:11:25
From: jb
Subject: Re: Answer this
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I own severall email addresses, and Yahoo seems to be one of the best at
spam handling, so if I am going to publish one addy, tis gonna be the
Yahoo address everytime.
Hope this helps.
A pitty you block the whole of the yahoo addreeses, but if this makes
your life easier, way to go...
Palooka a écrit :
> Why does so much of the crap on here originate from yahoo? Is there
> something special there? A few months ago, in exasperation, I blocked all of
> yahoo. Since then, I have commissioned a new laptop, and decided to start
> again, rather than just re-import the old block list.
>
> But now I'm coming close to just blocking all of yahoo again. Can anyone
> explain what attraction yahoo has for spammers, and for the tedious "rigged"
> brigade?
>
> Thanks,
> Palooka
>
>
>
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