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Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:40:13 -0500

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:37:32 PST, admin () phishcop net said:

Actually, yes, I do.  The email address 'ymailabuse-prio () yahoo com' goes
to REAL PEOPLE who really read the complaints and do something about them
(as far as I can tell).  I hope I don't lose my "complaint privileges" for
having posted that email address here?? (I don't know why they make it so
hard?!?)

They're trying to keep themselves from being overwhelmed by complaints. :)

Imagine that the average phish or other spam hits 1 million mailboxes, and
0.1% of the people get pissed off enough to actually do something other than
just delete it.  We now have 1,000 people trying to complain.  If we make it
hard enough so that 99% of them give up, we only have 10 complaints to wade
through, rather than 1,000...

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