Yahoo Needs to Fix Spam Problem First

by Sean Hackbarth

So Yahoo wants to turn its myriad of services into a humongous social network centered on its e-mail. Ok fine once they get they figure out how to control spam. I’ve had a Yahoo e-mail account since they first started giving them away. I used to use it as a secondary e-mail address. Now, I open it up about once a month because my inbox is filled with thousands of spams. It doesn’t matter if I go through the e-mails and tell Yahoo they’re spam. They keep coming back. Yahoo won’t win me over with their new strategy until they fix a basic element of a basic service.

Do any TAM readers who use Yahoo mail also endure mountains of spam?

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm and is filed under Internet. You can trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Yahoo Needs to Fix Spam Problem First”

I love the POTENTIAL SPAM emails sent to my inbox.

Posted by Andy on April 26th, 2008

I too had yahoo mail back in the day, but let it go about a year ago because the spam filters didn’t work.

Gmail works better so far. I get maybe a dozen spams in my inbox a month. My spam box gets about 25000 pe month, but I generally don’t bother there.

Posted by Opus Rex on April 26th, 2008

Opus, GMail figured it out. I get a bunch of spam, but it all goes into the folder where I never have to look at it.

Posted by Sean Hackbarth on April 26th, 2008

I get spam in my yahoo account, but that is basically because when I have to put in a semi-valid email (one that I have to reply to complete registration) that is the email that I use. So over the course of the last 8 years, I have used that as my ’spam account’ on purpose.

Posted by Clint on April 28th, 2008

Clint, I understand because I do something similar. However, when I mark an e-mail as spam Yahoo should be smart enough to put it directly into my spam folder the next time it’s sent to me. Yahoo’s spam filter doesn’t work for me.

Posted by Sean Hackbarth on April 28th, 2008

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