--- "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 17:04 GMT, Sidney Brooks > penned: > > What if we put some pressure on the email > providers, in my case Yahoo. > > Suppose I create a new email account with Yahoo, > whose address I gave > > to correspondents that I want, while keeping my > current Yahoo address > > only for this list. In time Yahoo's memory banks > will be so cluttered > > with junk that they may decide to take remedial > steps. > > > > You'll simply hit your quota, and any further > messages will be deleted. > > A lot of people have email addresses they only check > every week or two > (or more!) on these free accounts. They often have > maxed out their > quota well before they check mail again. I doubt > one more such user > will bother yahoo too much. > > -- Here is a real incentive for Yahoo. A lot us belong to Yahoo groups, one of their favorite features. I have just looked and the email addresses of posters are available there as here. Unless the method used by the attacker of this site is unique to linux, the same technique can be used to wipe out Yahoo groups. And there is no free service in Windows, as described here for linux, for customers to do anything about it. For the record, I have also sent aa alert to Microsoft, since most of the return addresses now are not from Sven but Microsoft or MS. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
