[Full-disclosure] What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:37:32 PST, admin at phishcop.net said:

> Actually, yes, I do.  The email address 'ymailabuse-prio at 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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