A Glimpse of Yahoo's Anti-Spam Efforts
This morning, while simply replying to an e-mail, I saw something new on Yahoo Mail. After clicking the Send button to whisk the e-missive on its merry little way, I didn't see a screen that said something to the effect of "message sent."
Instead, I saw behind the curtain of Yahoo's anti-spam initiative, announced recently as a coalition with Microsoft and AOL. This interim page summarized the message I was sending at the top, and at the bottom, there was a message that read:
"Compose - Verify
To compose a message, please enter the word as it is shown in the box below:"
There was a "scrambled word" GIF image similar to Overture's login screen (which forces you to enter four letters "hidden" in a series of GIF images). In this case, the word was "poison." And, I had to type it in before I was allowed to send the message. To the right, there was a box that read:
"Why do I have to do this?
This step helps Yahoo! prevent abusers and spammers from using Yahoo! Mail. "
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Posted by Cory Kleinschmidt
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