Re: [iPad] Spam

 

Well, this appalling spam travels across the ocean as well. Some of it mentions a nonexistent Cr--gs list advertisement and most comes from a hotmail account. And I think the spam is somehow spun off the iPad and iPhone Yahoogroups lists.


I have set up a number of Mail.app Rules to filter it out for automatic deletion, but of course it still arrives in my inbox.

But I have a question. If I unsubscribe from any/all of the yahoogroups to which I currently subscribe will that stop the spam? It seems to me that once the evil dooers have harvested your email address from a yahoogroup database whether or not you remain a subscriber is immaterial as they still have your email address to send spam to. Is that correct?

Any opinions on this?

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Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA

On 26/01/2012, at 12:47 PM, Elizabeth wrote:

 

Yeah, i have pretty much abandoned my hotmail account, ticks me off, have had it for years.

E in Long Beach
Sent from my iPad2


On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:

 

> I'm tempted to give up all Yahoogroups. I am still getting FILTHY spam from a Craigslist ad which *I* NEVER posted, and Craigslist 'support' is NO help whatsoever!

Most of that seems to come from hotmail.com.

I filter ALL hotmail.com to a special folder, and review it. About 1-2% is legitimate mail from "real people" who use hotmail; the rest is deleted.

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