[BC] Web hosting?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 09:07 AM 4/30/2007, Bill Doerner wrote
>We've had good luck with (Of all people) Yahoo.

         Well, I rarely respond to a message like this, but
         it so happens that this week the list has been
         bombarded with crud from a yahoo person.
         (Fortunately, I managed to block most of
         the email from this individual, who repeatedly
         tried to tell the list to "go to hell" and "drop dead.")

         However, in contacting Yahoo, all week I have been
         getting boiler-plate messages about how it isn't
         their user.

         Sending them "whois" pages from the IP addresses
         doesn't seem to get their attention thus far, as I merely
         get another boilerplate "lesson" on how to read headers.

         If someone hijacks your web pages (which has happened
         to one of mine - the faq), Yahoo pretends they can't do
         anything unless you provide them with legal documents
         proving you were wronged.

         Yahoo lists, by the way, generate more spam and virus
         email than almost anything else in my experience, except
         possibly the boston radio interest group.  When someone
         cross-posts a message on this list to yahoo, we get a
         flood of spam and virus laden posts within minutes.

         Oh ... and one other thing.  Security.  I have had a
         yahoo address for some time. But, within an hour of my
         signing up for an address that has virtually never
         been used for outgoing email, the spam flood started.
         Typically, now, I will get two or three emails a month
         from two lists I joined with that address - but NEVER
         have posted to - along with hundreds of spams a week.
         (checking right now, there are 1066 spams listed on the yahoo
         account in the last three weeks.  There are 38 messages
         in the inbox, of which ONE ... a mailing file from Mervin Block ...
         was NOT spam, including many that are so obviously spam
         as to be a joke. "Meds," viagra, lottery, and crude words
         in subject lines, over and over.)

         I'm beginning to think the rapid decline of Yahoo is
         accelerating, aside from those who use it for bad
         purposes.

         I wouldn't recommend Yahoo to a friend.



>While I don't care for the company,  they have been stellar in performance.
>
>Bill Doerner
>KSIX Corpus Christi
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