Has Yahoo email eliminated spam?
It doesn’t seem likely that it has. But lately I’ve noticed that there’s no spam in my Yahoo email spam folder. That’s a first. Anyone else having the same experience?
UPDATE 12/27/18 12:57 PM:
I’ve discovered what the change is with Yahoo spam. As suspected, they haven’t done away with spam at all. They’ve just stopped showing how many spam emails a person has, so that now you have to click on the spam folder to see.
A step backward rather than forward. The spam is still coming in, although I think there’s less of it than there used to be.
I don’t even see a spam folder anymore. That can be a problem, as it does make mistakes on spam. I have recovered some HOA business e-mails from the spam folder several times in the last year.
Neo you can’t be serious.
Yahoo is one of the world’s biggest facilitators of spam. True, most of what they pretty-much unwittingly enable, goes out to everyone BUT the Yahoo account-holder. [Ie, it is the son, who is not on Yahoo, who gets the Viagra come-on seeminly from his mom, who is. Eg]
Even at Yahoo (where largely abandoned and completely unmanaged accounts account for much of the illicit trade in hijacked email addresses, it is the account holder herself who makes the biggest difference. Responsible behavior, coupled with an armory of defensive tools Yahoo makes available, can tamp it down to a very low level.
Several searches show absolutely nothing about Yahoo recently vanguishing spam. Au contraire – the halls are decked with the usual Trials, Tribulations and Lamentations of Yahoo spam.
Ted Clayton:
That’s my point when I say it’s unlikely. However, I have noticed a very sudden absence of spam there in the last couple of days.
Yes, now that I think about it my SPAM folder is not showing as much in it as it used to.
None for the last 5 days.
Just looked, two things there, both spam. Some weasel has figured out how to grab the name of someone on my email address book and then have some spam garbage email show up as being from that person. Yahoo has been catching those.
No spam?
Hmm. Maybe people’ve been too busy selling, and now buying, stocks. Maybe.
(Looks like the Market has pretty much recovered, for now at least…. Not sure that Paul Krugman will, though. Poor fellow. Just when his most fervent prayers seemed to have been answered. Alas, so close, so close…. Poor fellow…)
Mt Yahoo spam box is as full as ever.
The markets have today partly corrected their “correction”, with a 5% pop. Oil did it too.
But if you’re down 5% instead of 10% you are still down!
My Yahoo account is intermittent. Sometimes I can go a week without spam and other times a dozen at once will show up. Spam to that account *does* seem to be lessening in general. I’ve noticed, though, that some email messages I send from another account (to two dozen BCC addresses or more – meetings or updates on an ill family member) have been bounced by Yahoo and other ISPs. There may be an industry-wide attempt to curb spam and it is having an effect.
I don’t notice any difference.
Then again, if I notice anything that sets off my internal security alarm, which is not difficult, I e-mail the purported sender to ask him if it’s legit before I open it.
Also, if I send to more than one person it’s 99.99999999 % sure to be sent entirely BCC. (I wish some of the people who write to me would follow this practice!)
Julie near Chicago on December 27, 2018 at 12:42 am at 12:42 am said:
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Also, if I send to more than one person it’s 99.99999999 % sure to be sent entirely BCC. (I wish some of the people who write to me would follow this practice!)
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I preach BCC to everyone I can. I detest getting a group email with a half-page or more of other people’s addresses, who I don’t know and won’t be emailing myself.
Never mind the security breaches that can lead to.
So many people are so ignorant about their technological toys, or are just plain too lazy to make the miniscule extra effort to go BCC.
Agree completely about BCC. Most people don’t seem to have a clue what it is, or perhaps they just don’t care.
I’ve just discovered what the change is with Yahoo spam. As suspected, they haven’t done away with spam. They’ve just stopped showing how many spam emails one has, so that you have to click on the spam folder now to see. A step backward rather than forward. The spam is still coming in, although I think there’s less than there used to be.