http://www.aestheticdesign.com/blog/yahoo-421/ Web Design, Photography, and the occasional Rant Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:33:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aestheticdesign.com/blog/yahoo-421/comment-page-1/#comment-1186 Yahoo Slurp Problem - Repeated Downloads from Bot Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:43:59 +0000 http://www.aestheticdesign.com/blog/?p=3#comment-1186 [...] I already hate Yahoo for their incompetence, I’m pretty close to just banning their bot completely. I’m giving them one more chance [...] [...] I already hate Yahoo for their incompetence, I’m pretty close to just banning their bot completely. I’m giving them one more chance [...]

]]> http://www.aestheticdesign.com/blog/yahoo-421/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Matt Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:14:40 +0000 http://www.aestheticdesign.com/blog/?p=3#comment-344 It's ironic that this summer I have had several clients' Yahoo accounts broken into and then had spam emails sent from their Yahoo accounts to their list of contacts. Yahoo has been aware of this issue for quite some time yet doesn't seem to be able (or willing) to invest the time to stop it. So while Yahoo won't accept valid email because they wrongly label it spam, they are also responsible for sending out spam because their system has been hacked. It’s ironic that this summer I have had several clients’ Yahoo accounts broken into and then had spam emails sent from their Yahoo accounts to their list of contacts. Yahoo has been aware of this issue for quite some time yet doesn’t seem to be able (or willing) to invest the time to stop it. So while Yahoo won’t accept valid email because they wrongly label it spam, they are also responsible for sending out spam because their system has been hacked.

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