Would Maximizing Domain Blocking Be More Effective Than Updating 500 Blocked Addresses Periodically?

In Yahoo! Spamguard, I’ve learned that 500 blocked addresses is the limit — whether you upgrade or not. I’ve thought that it would be possible to convert the blocked addresses to relevant blocked domain names, but I’m not sure if that’s going to be worth the required effort — (ie. for example the address whatever@snotgrass.com could be changed to the domain name snotgrass.com). — I’m thinking that the only way to get that done might be manually, and that looks like quite a lot of work — UNLESS there actually is a way to automate that, some method that I don’t know about ! ! Otherwise I’m guessing that the only viable option is to renew the 500 blocks regularly, on some chosen periodic basis. Bottom line is that I’m not sure about the relative effectiveness of these two methods in fighting spam, especially since I’m not sure if there’s a way to automate addresses to domains or how often spammers switch entire domains. Which method is more cost/effective in fighting spam?

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2 Responses to Would Maximizing Domain Blocking Be More Effective Than Updating 500 Blocked Addresses Periodically?

  1. The Mr. Pine says:

    Y doesn’t allow domain blocking. You have a good idea. I hope it works.

  2. joe says:

    Blocking Domains And Using Filters Work
    Blocking A Sender In The All New Mail
    ( clicking the spam button only REPORTS the spam to yahoo )
    click the spam button to report the spam
    to block the sender manually
    on the top right side of mail page
    click options
    then mail options
    click contact options
    on the left click mail
    then click general preferences
    then block addresses
    type in the email address
    click add block
    if you are getting alot of spam from a certain domain
    you will see block domains to
    this will be after the @ sign in the email
    example @yahoo.com
    yahoo.com is the domain
    be carefull of the domains you block
    obviously you dont want to block yahoo.com
    that would stop all email from people with yahoo email addesses
    Blocking A Sender For Yahoo Classic
    click the spam button
    to add addresses manually to blocked senders list
    on top right side of mail page
    choose options
    then choose block addresses
    type in the email address
    if you are getting alot of spam from a certain domain
    you will see block domains to
    this will be after the @ sign in the email
    example @yahoo.com
    yahoo.com is the domain
    be carefull of the domains you block
    obviously you dont want to block yahoo.com
    that would stop all email from people with yahoo email addesses
    Bulk Email Settings
    bulk email is when the same email is sent to alot of people by just sending one email
    an easy way to spam alot of people in just a few clicks of the mouse
    For The all New Mail
    click options on top right side of mail page
    then click mail options
    then click spam
    put a check beside
    Automatically send suspected spam to my Spam folder
    also choose empty spam folder immediately
    For Classic
    click options on the top right side of mail page
    then spam protection
    and set the setting to delete immediately upon arrival
    Automaticaly Send Emails To Folders Using Filtershttp://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/…
    Report Spam And Scams To These Email Addresses
    spoof@yahoo-inc.com
    spam@uce.gov
    abuse@yahoo.com
    Report Abuse Formhttp://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/a…
    More Infohttp://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/…http://www.google.com/search?q=report%20…http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?a…
    If you received an email claiming to be from Yahoo! asking for your password or other personal information and how you to report phishing web sites or emails to Yahoo!http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit…http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit…http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?a…

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