Personally…I think you can unscribe from everything you belong to. But since the spammers have your direct Email ID…it will still flow.
Only fix….sadly….change ID…or put up with it.
Thanks
Bill
From: iPad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iPad@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sealy
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:53 PM
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Subject: 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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