Wait...if that's identified by SpamGuard as spam, and all messages identified by SpamGuard as spam are immediately deleted, why wasn't that one immediately deleted?

Posted by: John Bauman at October 8, 2005 12:35 AM

Hotmail has tried to block email i sent to myself.

Posted by: gmangw at October 8, 2005 01:04 AM

Perhaps the header was forged to look like it was from Yahoo?

Posted by: Kat at October 8, 2005 01:33 AM

Spamguard doesnt autmaticly delete messages, they are sent to the bulk folder and deleted after 30days

Posted by: Unknown at October 8, 2005 07:41 AM

Hey "unknown", see the screen shot, where it says, "You have chosen to immediately delete all messages that SpamGuard identifies as Spam." But "John" is correct: This message is in the Bulk folder and therefore a) was properly identified as spam and b) was not immediately deleted.

That's broken at least two different ways.

Posted by: stoo at October 8, 2005 08:45 AM

Finally, a truely smart spam checker.

Posted by: Eric Hosmer at October 8, 2005 08:49 AM

Yahoo means it will delete other spam and that way you get theirs by itself,

Posted by: El Gato at October 8, 2005 10:28 AM

I see spam getting worse and worse in its evasion techniques. Its turning into n00b |337 speak, "3nlarge y0ur pe*15" will obviously get marked as spam by even the worst spam blocker. Nice and broken

Posted by: GileX at October 8, 2005 11:33 AM

Heck Yahoo is always sending stuff to my yahoo account that is spam. At least they are being honest. ;-)

Posted by: Ray Stevens at October 8, 2005 08:48 PM

You can always mark any email you get in a yahoo account as spam, and any other mail from that email adress is sent to the bulk folder. So somebody could just set yahoo's email adress as spam

Posted by: Justin at October 8, 2005 08:57 PM

Could this just be a situation where the user manually moved the mail into the Spam folder, without actually marking it as spam, then took a screenshot to ridicule Yahoo, forgetting that the text on the screenshot gives it away?

Posted by: Ciaran at October 8, 2005 10:50 PM

Should have blocked out that email address smithhome129@yahoo.com

Posted by: Phil at October 9, 2005 06:20 AM

whoops... mr smith may find himself geting a bit more spam now

Posted by: no one at October 9, 2005 12:10 PM

Yeah, that's broken all right. It's not a very good spamblocker if it doesn't know to ignore e-mails sent by its host company. dumb and broken.

Posted by: Bob at October 9, 2005 02:50 PM

how do we know aripostle didn't just move it there and take a screenshot? I't not that hard to do.

Posted by: anonymous at October 9, 2005 08:59 PM

*runs to outlook*

Posted by: weesnaw at October 9, 2005 11:06 PM

I'm talking with Yahoo right now about this. They are sending my address guard email to my bulk folder.

Mail FROM me TO me is marked as spam.

I -- as had previously been speculated -- am spam.

Spam I am.

Gwan. Say it.

"I Don't Like Spam!"

Posted by: sparky at October 10, 2005 02:47 AM

When I have tried to mark Yahoo stuff like that as spam it tells me that I cannot mark Yahoo as spam since I signed up for it and if I would like to discontinue receiving special offers from Yahoo go to blah blah blah....Looks like this guy is new anyway. 0% of 1GB used and the message is from June and he is just now posting as broken? Get a life, dork.

Posted by: Morissa2n at October 10, 2005 11:23 AM

Perhaps they are trying to up their karma with brazen honesty in order to make up for helping the Chinese government jail that journalist?

http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/1379006.shtml

There was a similar outbreak after WW2 Nazi collaborators started helping old people with their shopping.

I still cancelled my paid-for Yahoo email account.

Posted by: Interlard at October 12, 2005 11:01 AM

Adelphia does the same thing.

Posted by: JAC at October 12, 2005 12:26 PM

I tried moving a yahoo message into my bulk folder, and mark it as spam, and both worked easily. Not broken, just a forced iroinic circumstance.

Posted by: anonymous at October 12, 2005 09:26 PM

I submitted the screenshot in June, it was posted in October.

Posted by: Smithhome at October 16, 2005 08:44 PM

why does yahoo spam their own custumors?

Posted by: at October 17, 2005 09:59 PM

Why are they making last minute 4th of July deals in june?!?!?

Posted by: frobie at November 8, 2005 06:25 PM