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Spoofed or otherwise, the spam that makes it to your In box is just the tip of the iceberg. At the four major e-mail providers--MSN (including Hotmail), Yahoo, EarthLink and AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by AOL Time Warner)--between 40% and 70% of all incoming mail is killed upon arrival at their mail servers. But this has spawned a kind of spam arms race: the more mail is blocked, the more spammers send, in hopes that some will get through. As a result, the performance of the mail servers is starting to suffer. Two months...
...YAHOO Since Yahoo rolled out an enhanced version of its SpamGuard back-end filtering system in March, spam reports from users dropped 40%, according to a representative. The bulk-mail filter clears a good bit of spam from your In box but not all. It also traps quite a bit of legitimate mail, so be sure to check it before executing a mass delete. You can create custom filters based on such things as keywords in a message's subject line, but these are the easiest filters to fool. Some spammers simply add a period in the middle...
...part of this spring’s senior activities, the committee offered a chance for students to win tickets to a Red Sox-Yankees baseball game, promising tickets to the first 200 seniors to e-mail a Yahoo account starting at 8 p.m. Sunday night...
...problems for Becker and Zimmerman, whom the sec notified in August of possible insider-trading charges stemming from Zimmerman's trades of Amazon.com in July 2002. By then, Becker had moved to Lehman Brothers, where she had presciently questioned the value of stocks like Amazon.com and Yahoo. Zimmerman was at another hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, based in Stamford, Conn., where he remains employed. SAC declined to comment. Becker was suspended from Lehman last August. Officials there would say only that the matter "does not involve the firm...
...major online retailers have buying power that often means lower prices plus brand familiarity and track records that provide comfort. AOL offers a satisfaction guarantee and will act as an intermediary in disputes in which it believes the retailer and the customer have exhausted other avenues. (Yahoo in some cases provides refunds...