I'll just say that we should either allow free e-mail accounts or not. Choosing one or the other individual ones is not really effective. Yahoo sends out the most spam as it is one of the largest e-mail providers around and probably has the most forged e-mails as well. But what would be a more interesting statistic is SPAM per capita versus other solutions, I'd assume it is either lower or equivalent. I'm just going to put myself in the camp of: Ehh, why not. Lets just open it up and see what happens. My earlier comment was mostly based on the fact that the request was either on the day of or right after that big worm went through there so the timing was rather humorous. Perhaps we should only allow people with interesting domain names like packetgod.com or j-yo.com. And only if they are running decent mail software like Postfix or Qmail, none of that exchange or sendmail junk. (Flame on! Just kidding, it was a joke!) --j Wayne Johnson wrote: > Could you please be more specific on what you mean by spam issues? Are you saying you are receiving bonafide emails from yahoo accounts, or that you have a yahoo account and are receiving spam. I have a honeytrap yahoo account and I've never received any spam mail on it. As far as it having sourced spam, are you looking at the reply to address or the header? > > Now much spam a yahoo account receives is of no importance to this conversation. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of >> auditodd at comcast.net >> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:05 PM >> To: Mike Miller; J Cruit >> Cc: Tclug-List (E-mail) >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Yahoo mail access to this mailing list >> >> >> I have to agree with Mike. >> I have Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo for web email accounts and >> Yahoo is far and above the worst for spam mail and other issues. >> >> -- >> ---- >> ------ >> Todd Young >> >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- >> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> >> >>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, J Cruit wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Well, if this message hadn't come on the heels of a major >>>> >> Yahoo worm bot >> >>>> spreading fast I might be more inclined to say sure. >>>> >>>> http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,39367249,00.htm >>>> >>>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >>