Well, I've just got an email sent to a Yahoo group and noticed it had been scored really highly on my spam checker... I looked through the email and couldn't find out how.
On re-reading the email I noticed their advertising signature!
All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
Yeah, well done, advertise a spam busting service in a signature, but word it (Vi@gr@) in such a way that spam checkers will throw the genuine message up as spam - genius!
I'd sign up and check if the SpamGuard thing they are advertising would detect their own addition to messages as spam, but I really can't be bothered!
I run a mailing list and when people use Yahoo mail it not get delivered till i let them through.
Mailing list flag it up as spam and only way round it to as their email address to approved list
pain in the arse but thats silly adverts for ya
Sadly, their SpamGuard doesn't seem to pick it up (I think it's the same for BT & Yahoo). It does seem a bit erratic though; I've recently been getting a lot of fake bank emails with a nonsensical 'story' at the bottom to try and foil spam checkers (which I often find quite hilarious). BT/Yahoo correctly marks them as spam. Today I got one without the story, which it didn't pick up on.
(Although I suppose it could be the spammers that have got their tactics wrong!)
Posted by: Bill on October 5, 2006 4:30 PM