Yep, I do.... Did you have anything in mind?
Also, Yahoo was hacked 12-18 months ago. The thought at the time was that the hackers got IDs, passwords and address lists.
I had a problem about 12 months ago, but I notified Yahoo and changed my account password. The advantage I have over others is that I use a very strange address
QZ9090@.... I created this email address on purpose to foil potential hackers. Very few words or names in the English language start with Q or Z.
I think the Internet can be a very dangerous place. Could you imagine if someone aggregated all your Group postings and established a profile of you...... Big Brother is watching.... ;-)
As much as I joke about this, I wouldn't be surprised if Homeland Security was doing this already (under the Patriot Act).
Frank P.
Does anyone else post using a yahoo email?
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> On 16/08/2010, at 9:59 PM, Piers Goodhew wrote:
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> > It's possible they're just doing simple "from" spoofing - if so, then the spammer does not and never has had access to yr account (or need not have anyway). It's perfectly allowable in email to put whatever "from" address you like, and if that's all yahoo groups cares about, then you only have to have the email address of a valid group member.
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> > Only way to stop it would be to subscribe under a different email. Or get Y! groups to do much more thorough authenticity checking, which is actually pretty hard (both hard itself and hard to get Y! to change in a hurry).
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> > I'll just try a quick post as me but from a totally different account/server and see what happens ...
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> > On 16/08/2010, at 8:37 PM, Chris wrote:
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> >> Sorry about this guys. I am not a spammer but have no idea how this person(s) keeps doing this to me. I have changed passwords and have noticed that it does not matter which computer I use to post with. The last time this happened I was actually on my work computer which I completely killed and reinstalled the O.S.
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> >> I will have to post on some other groups to see if the problem happens everywhere or just on this forum.
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> >> I will change my password again but do not think this will clear up the problem as I have no idea how it is happening.
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> >> Again, sorry about this guys but I have no way of stopping it.
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> >> Chris
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