Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264769AbTIDHgj (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264833AbTIDHfx (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:35:53 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:7942 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264832AbTIDHda (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:33:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3F56ECAE.20800@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:41:34 +0200 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: SPAM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 22 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Hello list, > Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that > they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is > the condition upon which users get "free" service. However, > they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This > means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your > wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately > be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc. > Be forewarned. > Interesting. Probably a good reason to use yahoo whenever I send mail to abuse@somewhere . . . Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/