[ Ref. Paul Rumpf in 130207 MMDigest ]

Greetings again folks,  Seeing this article validates my feelings I have
held about Yahoo since the 1980s.  They seemed to be the leading purveyor
site of spam and viruses that existed then, and seems to exist now.
The last two cases of my getting email from people's accounts (who did
not send them) were also from Yahoo, so I see they have not changed
their stripes in _not_ protecting their members, but everyone else on
the net from such attacks.

One of the really bad parts about this whole deal is that if you happen
to know someone who is on Yahoo and you are in their address book, your
email address gets forwarded to parts unknown, and then you are subject
to mail from everywhere.

I have not had any such problems with Gmail (this is not a paid
advertisement, only a historical note).  I advise all who are on Yahoo
to get off that site at your earliest convenience.  I only regret that
the organ group is on that site and you have to join to join that
group.

It seems that the youth are flocking to that site, but with the history
of the type of material that has been pushed off that site in the form
of spam over the years, I would never let my grandkids have an account
on that site, no matter what.

Just my $.02

Dave Haibach - Getting Old In Them Thar Hills...

 [ I don't know for sure, but I'm suspicious that the way that
 [ most Yahoo and other e-mail accounts get hacked is by tricking
 [ the account owner into typing his usercode and password into a
 [ fake login screen.  It's easier for this to happen than you might
 [ think.  Like Dave, I'm not paid by Google for the following
 [ endorsement, but it's worth thinking about.   With gmail, you can
 [ get "two-factor authentication" for free.   Basically, they send
 [ an authentication code to your cell phone after you enter your
 [ password.  So in order to be able to log in, you need both the
 [ password and the phone.  The hacker, most likely, won't have
 [ possession of your phone.   I put off switching to two-factor
 [ authentication until I found out that it is possible (and
 [ expected) to authorize your computer to log in again without
 [ the code sent to your cell phone for 30 days.  This makes it
 [ very convenient but very robust.  Of course, you still shouldn't
 [ have your e-mail password be the same as your banking password!
 [ -- Jody