I think yahoo sells the names to spammers. I have a yahoo address that I use
solely to sign into Yahoo Messenger and I have never gotten so much spam on
any email address I have ever had, not even on the one I have listed on my
website were spammers could easily harvest it.
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On 1/13/09 9:38 AM, "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think that the big webmail systems, yahoo, hotmail and gmail, are
>> probably easy targets.
>>
>
>
> The funny thing about it was that I attempted to make an address which was
> about as obscure as they come. I fully suspect that yahoo mail's system had
> been compromised and somebody with evil-intent managed to harvest new
> registrations.
>
> AG
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