The results of my Yahoo spam reports
Here are the results of my spam reports to Yahoo groups and and email I wrote about a few days back.
Previously, I’ve heard frequent complains about Yahoo not paying much attention to the loads of spam on its network. Honestly, I am starting to suspect that these comments come from those who had never bothered to report it, since my personal experience turned out to be very different. So far, I’ve received a response for every report I sent. Here is one of them:
From: egroups-guidelines@cc.yahoo-inc.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: <snipped>
Date: June 9, 2007 3:35:12 PM PDT
To: akela<snipped>Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Groups.
We appreciate your report of possible abuse in Yahoo! Groups. We have
investigated your report and have taken appropriate action as per our
Terms of Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you
can visit:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Please know that Yahoo! is unable to disclose the action taken on
another user’s account with a third party. We are not able to make
exceptions to this rule.Please continue to notify us of any questionable content you find in
Yahoo! Groups. We are very concerned about preventing the abuse of
Groups, and we will continue to evaluate any material that violates the
Yahoo! Groups Terms of Service.Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
Regards,
Harold Quincy
Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/
Honestly, there isn’t much reason to “not disclose the action taken”, since it is pretty clear what it was anyway - now that the profile of the spam sender is redirecting to http://profiles.yahoo.com/us/error.html
But hey, as long as they deal with the nuisance, I have no complaints.