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Mr.Fiction · 06-28-2003, 04:57 PM

Yahoo Spam Filter Thwarts FTC

Consumers who used Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts to register for the Federal Trade Commission's new do-not-call service were met with an ironic twist Friday -- Yahoo's spam filter intercepted confirmation messages sent from FTC servers.

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."

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59427,00.html

06-28-2003, 04:57 PM
Mr.Fiction Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Free Speech Land Posts: 9,484	Spam filters block Don't Call List confirmation emails Yahoo Spam Filter Thwarts FTC Consumers who used Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts to register for the Federal Trade Commission's new do-not-call service were met with an ironic twist Friday -- Yahoo's spam filter intercepted confirmation messages sent from FTC servers. 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." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59427,00.html