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SPAM sucks, but only for you

Is this really hard to filter out?

Which part of my body you like the most:) at www.oheather dot com

Apparently it is, at least for Yahoo mail. I wonder which brilliant product they use? I have flagged messages as spam just like this one already this week, yet they still keep coming. I have to assume a thousands or other people have also flagged this style of message as spam, too, so what gives?

I have a theory. Yahoo makes money through advertising. Less spam email seen by users means fewer ad impressions will be seen. I don't know if they make money per impression or per click or per transaction - probably some combination of all three. So some pam is desired to slip through, hence, Yahoo and others are not too motivated to curtail it. And if the filter makers are too good, they are out of business

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