posted on December 19, 2000 03:34:14 PM new
I just got this message in my email box from Yahoo. I am a relative newbie to Yahoo mail so this may not be news, I don't know, but I was IMPRESSED! I wish I could have this filter for my regular email account too! YAHOO RULES!!
You have just received an email message in your new Bulk Mail Folder!
Yahoo! has created this folder as part of our continuing efforts to fight unsolicited commercial email, commonly
known as spam. Using Spamguard™, an innovative technology recently developed at Yahoo!, we are now able to
automatically detect spam and direct it to your bulk mail folder. The Yahoo! Mail team believes this will significantly
reduce the intrusion of unwanted commercial email into your inbox.
While we will make our best efforts to deliver solicited commercial and non-commercial email directly to your inbox,
we may occasionally send a message that you have requested to your bulk mail folder. For this reason, it is important
that you check this folder periodically to make sure that you do not miss these messages. If you believe that a message
that has been delivered to your bulk mail folder is more appropriately delivered to your inbox, please click on the
"Send to Yahoo! for review" link on the message and it will be automatically forwarded to Yahoo! Customer Care for
a careful review. Furthermore, if there is a particular message in your bulk mail folder that you want to ensure is
delivered to your inbox, you can set up a filter to do that. More information on filters can be found at filters help.
Messages will remain in your bulk mail folder for a minimum of 30 days, unless you delete them yourself. After 30
days, the messages will be subject to automatic removal. You may wish to empty (delete the contents of) your bulk
mail folder yourself on a periodic basis as these messages will count towards your mail quota until deleted.
To access the bulk mail folder, click on "Folders" in the blue navigation bar on the left of your Yahoo! Mail screen and
then click on "Bulk Mail" in the mail screen. To empty the folder, click "check all" at the bottom of the folder and then
"delete" checked messages. You can also click on "folders" in the left-hand navigation bar and then on "empty" next to
bulk mail.
If you do not want Yahoo! to send messages to your bulk mail folder anymore, you may opt-out of this service. In
order to opt-out, go to Mail Preferences and click on "Inbox" under "Bulk Mail Delivery." Don’t forget to "save" your
preferences before you leave the page.
Please note that Yahoo! provides the Bulk Mail Filtering and Deletion System (Spamguard™) as a service to our users.
If users do not want to use the service, they may opt-out. Yahoo! makes no warranties and disclaims any liability in
connection with your use of or inability to use this service. For more information, please review our Terms of Service.
As always, abuse of the Yahoo! Mail system by sending unsolicited commercial email and certain types of unsolicited
non-commercial email (for example, chain letters) is a violation of the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Sincerely,
posted on December 19, 2000 03:59:49 PM new
I don't mean to be pessimistic, but unless they have changed the perimeters on this 'bulk mail' folder, it won't help you much. They have had them a long time on most accounts. I turned mine off because it was so unreliable, and kept putting mail in that folder that was not spam. I see they are reminding you to check to make sure. I guess it hasn't improved yet. If you have to check to make sure it is doing what it is supposed to do, (which it hasn't to date), what is the benefit of using it?
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[ edited by CharlieOne on Dec 19, 2000 04:01 PM ]
posted on December 20, 2000 08:54:08 AM new
I hope it is working properly now. It wasn't before. I got spam in it too, as you have. I also got personal mail, and buyers mail in it. I wouldn't delete the contents of the folder with out checking it all first, as they even suggest you do. Nothing worse for a buyer than not having their mail answered. Checking two folders, for what I used to check in one, (my 'inbox'), is unnecessary time wasted, for me.
posted on December 20, 2000 11:26:09 PM new
guess I got prematurely excited. Thanks for posting Charlie! I know no email from my buyers will be in that mailbox since it's attached to the ID I use for bidding, but I sure don't want my sellers' EOA's to get zapped by the spam filter.
posted on December 21, 2000 01:09:31 PM new
So in order to protect you from wasting time with unwanted spam, yahoo will put it in the bulk folder and then make you waste your time reading an email to tell you that it's there.
"Sure looks like it, sure smells like it, sure feels like it, good thing we didn't step in it"
