posted on May 10, 2002 08:52:22 AM new
That button would say "Are you sure that the current email address you registered with at Yahoo Auctions is still valid or not full so that sellers can contact you when you win an item?"
There is a rash of returned emails from "not a registered user" or "Mailbox Full" users. Yahoo is partially to blame for allowing spam to it's registered email accounts unless they check their preferences checklist. This is an epidemic now that could bring down most third tier online auction sites.
Many bidders are totaly oblivious to the fact that their Yahoo mailbox fills up very fast or that that hotmail account does as well, not to mention the fact that the accounts go dead unless they are accessed every once in a while or they have to pay $20 to re-activate them.
The yes/no button would be a big help to remind bidders that their email address may be dead or full.
posted on May 15, 2002 11:44:46 AM new
Yeah, and let's not forget that most spam generates from three e-mail sources: Yahoo, Hotmail, and MSN.
I was getting as many as 80 spam mails a day from those accounts until I started forwarding all my spam to abuse e-mail accounts. It's tapered off now; It's a bad day if I get more than 10 spam mails.
If you're on AOL, forward your spam to tosspam and tosemail1. Spam from other accounts can usually go to an [email protected] or whatever domain the mail originated from.
We have signs from God because some of us are too stupid to figure things out for ourselves.
posted on May 15, 2002 01:45:53 PM new
I agree that most spam or a majority of it comes from those three sources. But that may change soon because of their own greed. Yahoo did a clever thing by changing the user agreement on it's free email accounts to allow spam unless the user checks off prefernce boxes. The accounts will now quickly fill up with spam and get locked. A user can no longer simply re-activate a long dormant Yahoo email account like before unless they pay $19.95 , so 99% of those accounts when they lapse will be RIP forever. Before there were tens of millions of Yahoo accounts getting spam every hour but that number should drastically drop as few people will click the no spam preference boxes and the number of email accounts may drop to a few million.
