Last night I was waiting for an important email that I knew was coming. I sat there refreshing my Yahoo Mail screen over and over, waiting for this email. Had I paid any attention to the dates of the mails that were at the top of my Inbox, I would have realized that my email had been sent, in fact it had been sent a few minutes prior, yet it was towards the very bottom of my Inbox. Why? Because now spammers are making sure that their junk lands at the top of your Inbox. My box was consumed with mail for the future! Here’s a screen shot of my Inbox with mail ranging in date from October 18, 2035 to January 1, 2038. That’s more than 30 years from now!
This reminds me of why I use my Gmail address as my primary email account. The spam filter is awesome, and very rarely to I end up with any junk like this in my Gmail Inbox. I wonder what tactics the spammers will come up with next!
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Yep, I noticed a while back spammers had invented time travel. Reminds me of about 5 years ago when I was expecting an important phone call from a prospective employer, how much telemarketing calls I would get in a single day (pre do not call list days).
Yup, this happens to me too. Although I’ve never seen email sent three decades from now.
Stupid spammers.
My Yahoo e-mail inbox is always stuffed with spam; which is one of the reasons I never use it. I’m yet to have a problem with GMail. A couple slip through the cracks, but they are definitely few and far in between.
I notice a few get through Gmail as well but they are always ones that I have forwarded from non-Gmail accounts so I don’t blame Google for those. It is very impressive for the 100’s of spam messages that I get in Gmail each day yet none get through. Not only that but I have never had them mark a single email incorrectly as spam.
To my mind, modern anti-spam protection should be similar to anti-phishing protection (e.g. black-lists should be stored on special servers). And spam filters shouldn’t be implemented locally (in e-mail apps), but should be built-in on mail servers instead.
Hmm, maybe there’s a difference between Yahoo Mail Beta and Yahoo Mail, because all the spam I get is always put into the junk mail folder. Occasionally, about 1 mail a month gets through to my inbox.
Interesting point.. could be!
Yahoo has spam filters - they work most of the time? Not sure why other posters are getting all sorts of junk? I have a Yahoo account and only get 2-3 spam per day - the rest go in Bulk items.
My Yahoo spam folder at the moment has 5,494 emails. My Inbox appears to get around 5-10 spam messages a day that don’t get caught.
I think Gmail is better, at least most of the spams end up in spam folder
I set up gmail to chuck any spam into my trash bin instantly. From time to time I’ll actually empty it, and there will be around 100 spams every week (5 actual mails, rest spam).
Otherwise, i think 1 email gets to my inbox a month. And it’s usually a bunk email with nothing in it. I did notice right when I made a new gmail account that it automatically had spam sent to it, so i think new spam places are starting to generate random emails for random addresses.
I use yahoo mail and ALL of my spam goes to the bulk folder, not a problem for me. Do you folks have your spam filters turned on ?
I too used to use Yahoo as my primary email, especially since I had SBC Yahoo DSL. But now I have made the switch to Gmail as my primary, and for a couple of reasons. One reason was because I got the email address I wanted, it hadn’t been taken up yet. Two, because their spam filter works wonders! Very, and I mean very few spam emails make it into my inbox. The other reason is because I can have my mail sorted to other folders (or as Gmail calls it “Labels”) and still have them download to my pc. Yahoo on the other hand, when you have email going into folders, they don’t download.
WOW, I’ve got those as well! I didn’t notice since I just instantly hit [spam]. For me I’ve got a handful of yr 2038’s, but none of those are in english (I should’ve known the asians would be first to develop time travel)!
Also, who uses Yahoo! mail classic anymore?
I still use, my connection is too slow to try the “live” version
Yep, I use Yahoo! Mail Classic as well even though I have a fast cable connection. The new version takes like 30-seconds to load while the old one is less than 5-seconds…that just isn’t worth it when I am essentially done with my email within the 30-seconds it would have taken to load the new Yahoo! Mail.
Yahoo! Mail is so Web1.0…