Kevin,
Yahoo does a very good job of preventing the harvesting of their email addresses by spammers. How do I know this? I have one address used primarily for posting and receiving to the 6 Yahoo groups I belong to, the other is used for other miscellaneous mail. The one I use for Yahoo receives on average one spam a month, the other receives about 15 per week. Both addresses are about 3 years old.
So of course I am having trouble reconciling my Yahoo experience with yours, I use a Dell PC not a Mac, there must be other things going on here we're not taking into account.
>From my experience I vote to keep it simple and stick with Yahoo.
Dave Towle
> Subject: Re: VOTING YES FOR YAHOO
>
> Very little spam comes via the list, however the email addresses on the
> list are harvested by spammers.
> How do I know this?
>
> I have one email address for posting to the list, and another for
> receiving emial from the list.
> A quick check of the junk folder shows around 150 spam messages in the
> last couple of days to the email address I use for posting.
> That email address is only used for posting to yahoo, nothing else.
>
> The problem with using yahoo or any other well known groups website, is
> that it is not much work for a spammer to sign up for a whole stack of
> different groups, and then harvest the email address from each message
> sent to them.
>
> If we swapped to someones personal group server, it will take more
> effort for the spammer to find and sign up.
> Of course, you could be paranoid and not send the email addresses to new
> subscribers until they had posted half a dozen on topic messages, and
> censor messages from newbies prior to posting etc to make it harder for
> spammers to lurk on the list (who wants some work? ).
>
> I get a bit annoyed that Yahoo keep on dropping the ball. One returned
> message and the list stops until you realise it has been too quiet for a
> day or so, then you can't get the missed messages resent.
>
> Kevin
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