Each day I am guaranteed to recieve a dozen message with the simple title Re:Hi (Selling various medications) which Yahoo itself identifies as BULK but cannot yet identify them as Spam.
2006-10-05 20:01:37 · 9 answers · asked by Hillie 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
because yahoo is an ad machine.
2006-10-05 20:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is unfair to blame Yahoo!. Its filtering system has rightly sorted the mails into your bulk folder. If you feel strongly against the mails, it is your own responsibility to do a blocking of the specific spam mails thro the facility put in place under "options". Moreover, do you even realize that not all spam-looking mails are actually spams? That is why Yahoo! is giving you the opportunity of deciding it yourself.
2006-10-06 03:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by peaceman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spam is still a pretty tough problem. The key to filtering spam is to answer the question: What's worse, seeing spam and thinking it's real, or seeing a real email and thinking it's spam? The answer's probably the latter: having to delete a few spam mails that got past the filter is annoying, but you never want to lose a real email because your software thought it was spam. So a lot of spam software have to give the benefit of the doubt to ensure they don't delete any real emails.
But I have had good success with GMail, personally.
2006-10-06 03:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by ratboy_wustl 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You want to try Karoo mate. They treat just about everything as spam, even emails that have been replied to. It's just as bad cos you have to muck about going to the home page, then my account, then change my settings, then spam folder then you have to go through each one individually to find the goodies.
2006-10-06 03:10:21 · answer #4 · answered by tradcobdriver 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I've been getting the re. hi ones, a tad tiresome. Maybe we should throw out a challenge to yahoo to answer this one. So Yahoo?
2006-10-06 03:12:46 · answer #5 · answered by diana - b 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Co'z you didn't declare it yourself as spam there is a spam button in yahoo mail just select what e-mails you want to declare it as spam then click the button spam...
2006-10-06 03:09:28 · answer #6 · answered by JarmenKell 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well, its only reasonable to expect this when a bunch of yahoos are running it and can only come up with a name like YAHOO.
( I suspect GW Bush is the ringleader )
2006-10-06 03:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by dragonwythe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dont ask us,ask Yahoo ,then they might do something about it.
2006-10-06 03:24:26 · answer #8 · answered by Andy P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
whatever ratboy said... i never thought of it that way.. from now on im never gonna complain about spams.
2006-10-06 03:10:41 · answer #9 · answered by with_dark_motives 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋