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The results of my Yahoo spam reports

Monday, June 11th, 2007

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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Reporting Yahoo Groups Spam

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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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