[PLUG-TALK] Increased Yahoo Spam

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Nathan W wrote:

> i haven't seen a spike either, but have you confirmed from the message
> headers that the messages are actually coming from Yahoo!'s mail servers?
> spoofing is a pretty popular tactic for spammers lately, and Yahoo! is
> very frequently a target for spoofing. (biggest mail provider there is...)

   Yes, I know how to read headers and separate IP addresses from domain
names.

> if you confirm that the messages are being sent from Yahoo!'s systems, you can
> report it here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/spam.html

   The actual reporting address is network-abuse at cc.yahoo-inc.com

> a bigger question is whether your spam filter is properly detecting spam as
> such, if not, this sounds like an awesome opportunity to train the spam filter!

   I use a chair and a whip.

Rich