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March 27, 2005Yahoo Spamguard Breakdown - Please Send Emails With Subject Line BelowHas this happened to anyone else? Starting about two weeks ago, Yahoo's spam filtering seems to have broken down. Whereas before, most spam went to the bulk mail folder, and only a few made it into my inbox, almost all goes to my inbox now. This morning, I check my email since going to bed last night. I have 36 new messages, 1 in my bulk mail folder. Of the 35 new messages in my inbox, 34 were spam, and 1 was legit. I did not do anything to screw up my filtering. Yesterday, I even reset the Spamguard filtering, so that it would forget all it had "learned" in case it learned the wrong message. But even back to pure Spamguard, it's broken down. There is one particular email I've been getting pounded with in the last week, variations on
where the non-alpha character varies. If Yahoo hasn't figured this message out yet, it's toast. I've sent in a service request to Yahoo about this. I got a non-responsive reponse back which "closed" the problem. I also got a survey request about "how are we doing" in which I rated them a 1, the lowest setting. It's at the point where I am thinking of switching to a new email provider for the first time since I got Yahoo several years ago. So, all you Yahoo email users? Are you seeing a breakdown in spam filtering, or is it just my account (which I actually pay for, to get enhanced service)? What I've now done is to set up a filter that sends all email from addresses that are posted on the web (like blog at centrist c oalition dot com, which forwards to my Yahoo email) to a suspect email folder. Unfortunately, it means that some legitimate emails from readers trying to send email to this blog will go there, and may get lost in the spam. So if you do send a message to this blog, please put Attn: centristcoalition in the subject line, so I'll know it isn't spam. Posted by rickheller at March 27, 2005 09:38 AMComments
Rick, that bites! If you'd like a gmail account, let me know and I'll send you an invite. --Patrick Posted by: PatHMV at March 27, 2005 10:39 AMI had this problem a few weeks ago for a few days and then the problem disappeared. Yahoo! is MUCH better than hotmail where your experience is the norm. Posted by: EG at March 27, 2005 11:18 AMRick, That does bite. I use Yahoo! and have noticed a dramatic increase in my bulk mail in the last month or so. However, only a few have managed to sneak through. Good luck. Posted by: AH at March 27, 2005 12:03 PMRick' I've had that problem in the past, but what I found was that I would have to occassionally carve out some time to re-train my filter by marking the non-filtered spam as such. Haven't really had too bad a problem with it in the past 3 months, though. Before that, I maybe noticed it pick up after about a month of re-training. Of course, I also had the occassional problem of a few friends' emails landing in the spam box, so I made a note to check there once a week for stuff like that. That's been few and far between, though. Posted by: Greg Wythe at March 27, 2005 08:40 PMMy filters through cox are working pretty good, but I still get about one Nigerian Scam a day. But I get a laugh out of those. Posted by: Tully at March 27, 2005 10:20 PMI have a yahoo account and, as a DSL customer, an SBCGlobal account, neither of which is having any problems with spam. 99% of it still goes to my bulk mail folder. It may be a widespread problem, but it hasn't affected me in the least. Posted by: AJ at March 30, 2005 11:32 PM |
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