Survival Tips for Yahoo's New Anti-Spam Policies?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday February 27, 2002 @11:47PM from the tackling-the-SPAM-hydra dept.

skagin asks: "Yahoo has instituted a new set of anti-spam policies which are causing havoc for our customers (we're a small ISP). List mail with non-existant, over-quota, or recently cancelled recipients is being bounced whole, and much of the one-to-one mail we send is bouncing. Yahoo tells us that our mailserver is being treated as suspicious because of the number of bad recipients being sent to, but most of those are bounces from yahoo spam sent to non-existant addresses on our network. Our customers are going nuts. Is anyone else out there having this problem with Yahoo?"

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Yahoo accounts--filter the trailer by YeOldeCurmudgeon · 2002-02-28 03:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

I've noticed a significant increase in the amount of spam received on the Yahoo accounts of friends since January, 2002. Personally, I believe that when various free Groups were bought and merged with Yahoo groups, some came with email address security weaknesses spammers are exploiting. I added one filter that seems to kill most of the internal Yahoo spam. If the header says it originate's from within Yahoo but doesn't have the typical Yahoo! trailer, it is spam.