[TenTec] Yahoo groups and SPAM

[Joe]

I find that to disable the ARRL address to remove spam very interesting.  Maybe there is a clue here.  However, I get 98 percent spam at aa4nn at juno.com .  My aa4nn at arrl.net reverts to aa4nn at earthlink.net where I get maybe 2 - 3 spams a day.  For me, spam is not coming from ARRL.  Not yet, anyway, after a year via ARRL to earthlink.

If you do a google search on your callsign, you will find many, many sites where your call sign is referenced.  I looked at some and found references at contesting.com, eham.com, places where contest scores are published, many european sites referring to my call sign.  These references go back a few years when I was on juno.   Will this never cease!
73,
de Joe, aa4nn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Pagel 
  To: tentec at contesting.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:36 PM
  Subject: [TenTec] Yahoo groups and SPAM


  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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