Digital BW, The Print

It's possible that the most workable solution is on the individual users
end. I subscribe to more lists than I can bother to follow and get hardly
any spam.

From yahoogroups I take individual emails, which get routed into individual
folders inside my email program - that handles the ads. As for spam, I have
two filters in place, one called Spaminator, which my ISP provides, plus a
junk mail filter inside of Outlook express. Consequently, if I get one piece
of spam in my inbox per day I'd be surprised.

Solutions are out there.

Todd


> Martin and Antonis,
> 
> What a nice group of people we have assembled here in this
> group, sharing valuable information that we all seem to be
> learning from. Also, what a shame it's going to be to see
> valuable people depart the group due to noticeably increased
> amount of SPAM appearing in mailboxes, and increasingly
> annoying Yahoo ad practices.
> 
> I have tried to do my part by searching through the mysterious,
> hard to find Yahoo sections related to Spam deterrence. Yahoo
> is a master at being hard to contact. I did find one section about
> "harvesting of email addresses" and they clearly warn that they
> cannot prevent people/companies from harvesting addresses.
> This is probably where the Spam increase is coming from.
> 
> I know Tom McConnell (sp?) has researched this too. I guess no
> suitable alternative has been found.
> 
> I am just raising this question again because I want to continue
> to be a part of this group, yet at some point, I'm going to abandon
> Yahoo as my home page portal, and all of their groups, just out
> of principle alone. I know advertising must support these
> vehicles, but the way they do it is, to me, increasingly
> unacceptable and sleazy.
> 
> I will continue to search for alternatives.
> 
> Mark Tucker
> http://marktucker.com