another reason / loads of spam

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Chase Wildstar"
<Chasewildstar at a...> wrote:
> already did that 3 weeks ago..
> And I checked it yesterday too..
> Same thing, everything is checked NO.
> So Its gotta be a spammer using the main group as a place to glean Email
> addys from.
> 

> 
> 
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Chase Wildstar"
> > <Chasewildstar at a...> wrote:
> > > My gowd, I rejoined the HP4GU main group for a week. Posted one
> > reply, got the typical "your message does not conform" BullS__T
> > responce, and then got so mad I dropped the group..
> > >
> > > BUT, Now all of a sudden, I'm getting TONS of spam. I think
> > spammers are using the main group for spam lists. I didn't have
> > this spam problem untill I joined the main group. >>>>>>>
> >

bboy_mn:
Yahoo takes precautions to prevent their groups from being data mined
for email addresses. 

At the top of an active post or anyplace in the group where an email
address might appear, you will notive that email addresses stop one
character after the '@' sign. For example: bboy_mn at y.... Although, not
all people use Yahoo addresses for their primary reply address.


Of course, we all know the @y... is @ yahoo.com, but it doesn't show
on the page. If you put your mouse pointer on an email address, and
look at the status line, you don't see the actual address. You see a
code number that Yahoo uses to extract the actual email address from
it's database. Here is an example of what on looks like-

http:// ...edited...
/HPFGU-OTChatter/post?protectID=197075234163082198090199175252147223136158196219183121152006048067

If you are reading and posting to the group by email instead of coming
to that actual Yahoo group webpage, then you email address may have
been intercepted along the way.

bboy_mn