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Re: Re: Re: Helping Possible Spammers?

by IlyaM (Parson)
on Jan 17, 2003 at 18:25 UTC ( [id://227759]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Helping Possible Spammers?
in thread Helping Possible Spammers?

Does yahoo have open-relays? I doubt so. So it must be an email sent to yahoo's mailbox. Is sending emails to yahoo mailbox is a sign of spammer? I doubt it too. For example in one of my projects I've implemented mass sending of various notifications to web site members (non-spam) and very large portion of email addresses was from free mailbox providers like yahoo, hotmail, etc. In this case probability of having a line in mail server logs which mentions yahoo servers was very high.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Helping Possible Spammers?
by Marza (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2003 at 19:30 UTC

    You can test them if you know their mail server IPs. ordb.org has a simple routine that checks for it.

    I don't know if they "really" police it since a my users complain they get spammed a great deal in their yahoo mail. But some of that might be their own fault. The yahoo client now has a block option. So I don't know.

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