I used to use this form semi regularly. It's behavior has changed in the last couple of months, after i'd finally gotten over the whole 'why can't I just forward them the email' thing and gotten used to copying and pasting the header and the body (seperately) into different fields on their webform. I'm disgusted that Yahoo (a regular source of spam) no longer readily offer the means to report the abusers (or abused accounts) in their midst. This while they apply some of the most over-the-top and disproportionate justifications to categorise inbound mail as spam (to their customers detriment, and also their correspondents, who have no idea why they're being categorised that way). If anyone knows what Yahoo's intentions are in this space, i'd love to hear about it. Mark. On 23/03/12 08:41, Paul Graydon wrote:

The Yahoo form hasn't worked for a while. When you do get to somewhere for reporting spam, a few hours or days later you'll get a response telling you to submit a report on the exact same form you used. If you do you end up with the same response. Repeat ad infinitum. Same goes for their grey-listing/rate limiting report message. I've given up trying to report anything e-mail related to Yahoo, mostly just apologise to end users and suggest they use another e-mail provider.

Paul

On 03/21/2012 03:27 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:

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Yahoo!'s abuse contact from whois:

OrgAbuseEmail: network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com

now sends an autoresponse that tells you to go to a web form to report spam:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/spam.html

but the link doesn't work--it just redirects to a generic Yahoo! help page at:

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=product&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML

So how does a non-Yahoo! account holder report spam originating from Yahoo!'s network?

----- Forwarded message from Yahoo! Network<network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com> -----

From: Yahoo! Network<network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:59:35 -0700 Reply-To: Yahoo! Network<network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com>

Thank you for your email, but this address is no longer being used for abuse reporting or abuse related questions.

To report spam, please use this form: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/spam.html

To report other types of abuse or for help with security or abuse related issues, please go to Yahoo! Abuse: http://abuse.yahoo.com

For questions about using Yahoo! services, please visit Yahoo Help: http://help.yahoo.com

Note: Please do not reply to this email as replies will not be answered.

Thank you, - Yahoo! Customer Care

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On 23/03/12 12:01 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:21:28 +1300, Mark Foster said:

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If anyone knows what Yahoo's intentions are in this space, i'd love to hear about it. There's good reason to think that even Yahoo doesn't know what its intentions are.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/16/yahoo-decides-to-fire-its-brightest-tech-mi...

Yahoo has long been using Ling Chion themselves, a death by 1000 cuts. (Condolences to all my .net friends who still get paychecks from Yahoo.) jc