[112399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed Feb 25 13:44:51 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:13 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0902251706270.4546@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> Christ .. Yahoo did say "complaints". And it can take a very low
>> level of complaints before a block goes into place - especially for
>> low volume (corporate etc) mailservers.
>>
>
> I don't think this is Yahoo reacting to spam complaints because a large
> number of sites (many universities, for instance) are being affected by
> this problem at the same time.
Universities are often major sources of spam. Spam is sent directly
from virus-infected student computers, and spam is also sent to students
at their university email address and then .forwarded on to the
student's outside (or post-university) email account - when the student
receives forwarded spam at their Yahoo account and clicks "this is spam"
the university is considered the "source" of the spam.
jc
