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Getting spammed at my computer

I receive upwards of 10 and more spam email daily at all of my email addresses. I'm very cautious about what services I sign up for and I constantly nag tell my husband to be very aware of sites that offer free items in return for your email address. Finally, he learned the hard way that my paranoia has some basis in fact: his Yahoo! email account was hijacked and used to send a spam e-mail to all his contacts. Thankfully, his address book on Yahoo has less than 20 entries so it wasn't a massive spam launch. However, ...

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Getting spammed at my computer was published on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11:15am and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Dear Yahoo, please free my mail

<rant>Or give me a get-out-of-jail-free card. I’m serious. I don’t really care about integrating my account with Facebook, Flixster or Wixster. I don’t care for the fancy visual changes. How about giving us POP or IMAP access for free? If that’s too much to take, offer POP/IMAP access for less than the current rip-off price of $19.95 per year. I mean, all I use my Yahoo! email for is just that – mail and because Yahoo’s been apparently resistant to freeing up the email pipes, I’ve slowly and surely made other services (Hotmail & Gmail) my primary means of contact. ...

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Dear Yahoo, please free my mail was published on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 6:24am and tagged , , , and . Respond to this article by writing the first comment.