At 04:29 AM 6/29/2003 +0000, John R. Levine wrote:
>Just as some feared, Yahoo's spam filters blocked confirmation emails from
>the FTC's Do Not Call registry according to a Wired News Article
... which is based on uninformed and incorrect speculation.
I asked a manager I know at Yahoo. He checked the IP range that the
donotcall mail is coming from, and verified that no, they're not
blocking it. Some might have been filtered into the "bulk" folders,
but it wasn't blocked.
It was filtered not blocked, but as far as I know all spam at Yahoo goes to
bulk mail folders. From the article:
"representatives note that the company does not completely block e-mail,
but sends them to a bulk mail folder for users to review. "
What really happened is that the servers were grossly overloaded and
have been taking up to 11 hours to send out confirmation mail, and
users misinterpreted the delay as blockage.
Please avoid spreading incorrect rumors. That does nobody any good.
Here is the relevant quote from the Wired News article
(http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59427,00.html):
---snip---
The glitch was discovered by Washington security firm NetFrameworks during
routine evaluations of spam filters that the company performs for its clients.
Our tests showed that Yahoo's spam filter was automatically sending the
confirmation messages from the do-not-call list into users' bulk-mail
folders," said NetFrameworks co-founder and CTO Eric Greenberg. "The irony
of it is that the spam filter is blocking the very thing that's supposed to
help you stop getting spam over the phone."
---snip---
The origin of this is from NetFramework's press release
(http://www.netframeworks.com/press.php?newsID=32):
---snip----
NetFrameworks, Inc. today announced that its researchers have discovered
that leading spam blocking systems, including a top processor of email
worldwide, Yahoo!, are blocking email confirmations from the Federal Do Not
Call Registry launched this morning by the Federal Trade Commission.
----snip---
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