Re: Ang: Announcement: Opera-Users mailing list to be closed in late July, 2010

At 08:35 PM 07/04/2010 John Silby wrote:
>Thanks, Katrina, I didn't know that. It doesn't change my 
>opinion of Yahoo! much though, LOL. I belong to a few groups 
>and nearly all of them regularly send out spam. In the one that 
>never has spam the owner moderates every message.

I think there are two reasons for Yahoo groups being rife with 
spam. One is that a lot of people who aren't particularly 
computer-literate use Yahoo and get themselves infected with 
malware that sends out spam. The other is that it is easy for 
spammers to sign up for many Yahoo groups for the purpose of 
spamming. Setting things up so that new users are moderated 
mostly takes care of that problem. The Yahoo groups I belong to 
don't send out much spam, mainly because I simply drop the ones 
that have too much spam, only staying with the ones that have a 
good ratio of real mail to junk.

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Katrina Knight
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