[TenTec] Yahoo groups and SPAM

[Jerry Harley]

nOT ONLY IS IT SPAM BUT 70% PORN SPAM.  I've been forwarding it to 
Abuse at yahoo.com for the last few days.  I'll let you know if it does any good.

At 12:36 PM 28/05/2003 -0500, Mike Pagel wrote:
>Sorry about the slightly off-topic post, but I wanted to reply to concerns 
>about participation in Yahoo groups resulting in SPAM in one's mailbox.
>
>I currently belong to 14 Yahoo groups, but only have traffic from 2 of 
>them coming into my mailbox.  When Yahoo activated their "Marketing 
>Preferences" profile a year or so ago, I was alerted to their default 
>profile setting that allowed Yahoo send a wide variety of email to my 
>address, so I made sure my profile denied all 13 of those options.
>
>Like most of you, however, I was still getting 20-50 SPAM messages a day, 
>and it seemed to be getting worse.
>
>On Saturday, I disabled my ARRL email address on the ARRL member web 
>site.  Within hours, SPAM ceased and I have received NO additional SPAM 
>since then.
>
>If you've got an ARRL "email alias", there might be merit in shutting it off.
>
>73 to all
>de Mike, K9UW
>Amherst, WI
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