Akela’s WebPublishing Blog

Here are the results of my spam reports to Yahoo groups and and email I wrote about a few days back.
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Did you know that ‘regular’ Yahoo Groups users do not have to wait for the group admin (or the blue moon) to clean out the spammers?

If you already do, I am proud of you. But for me the fact that a general member can participate in getting rid of those spamming the group was as a complete revelation to me.

I have to say that Yahoo does not make finding out ways to report abuse to them easy. This is especially true for YahooGroups. I had to search for a couple of hours before I found an obscure link to their report form (posted by a user in the answers.yahoo.com section, mind you). Grrrr.
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I am sorry, but this is just too cute not to mention.

You@v.gg is the shortest email address I have seen so far. Who know that one-letter domains even existed?
The free version gives you 25 MB space and a spam filter. What else is there to wish?:)

If a spam email you received was sent from a yahoo address, you can complain to Yahoo.com directly. Just forward the message, including all its headers, to one of the following mailboxes:
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