>Obviously this doesn't speak to how temporary it was, but to hear the >Yahoo/AOL folks tell it, there was an immediate drop-off in very visible >effects (ie, they were having a large support volume issue due to people >actually calling them about this) and it hasn't come back.
AOL and Yahoo had a rather unusual problem: they both let criminals steal their users' credentials including address books, so the users were getting spam with faked return addresses of people they knew. So what those two providers are doing is forcing the rest of the world to bear the cost of their own security failures. I understand why they did it, but let's not be under any misconception here about where the problem came from. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
