What is Yahoo doing when I report spam in my email?

by theweb · 2 Comments
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dave asked:


I’ve been checking and marking as spam. Is Yahoo doing anything? It seems I’m still receiving spam from the same people. What is the point of marking it as spam if Yahoo is not doing anything.

2 Responses to “What is Yahoo doing when I report spam in my email?”

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  1. JordTeic says:
    November 13, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Here’s what I think is going on:

    First off, you’ll see that the spam is deleted from your inbox. Simple enough. Then, Yahoo logs the sender so any e-mail received from that sender is marked as spam (you’d find that out if you ever accidentally marked something as spam). Yahoo takes the contents of that e-mail and sends it through an algorithm to try to find a pattern to these e-mails, like if lots of people claimed an e-mail as spam, the pictures and text might be the same. Spammers are making invisible text, pictures, pdfs, and other things different in each e-mail so an algorithm like this won’t work, so Yahoo has to find a pattern in the e-mails, and by marking it as spam, you’re helping with figuring out what e-mails will be marked as spam in the future.

  2. **FOREVER** says:
    November 16, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    I have the same promlem. I get a lot of spam mail and I mark it as SPAM, but I still get them to my BULK box, maybe Yahoo! Mail servces just direct all of the mails that was marked spam to the BULK mail, but the DO NOT stop them from coming.

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