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Has Yahoo abandoned their long standing policy of only sending e-mail to verified e-mail addresses? I contacted MAPS NML to be sure.

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Perhaps you on the internet can help - do you know dan's last name?

From: jnaughton
Subject: Dan's last name
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How do I spell Dan's last name?

Jennifer M. Naughton
Tax Analyst II
781-XXX-1212

A new campaign to battle unwanted e-mail

This is the start of a campaign for e-mail address verification and privacy.

Often, commercial e-mail firms do not really get affirmative consent before they start
SPAMMING you. Sometimes this is called double opt-in. I'm tired of firms claiming
that they have opt-in, but that don't verify the e-mail address that a (l)user filled out
on a web form somewhere.

Since 1999, I've been getting a lot of e-mail sent to my domain by people
intending to send mail to subscribers of other ISPs, or CompuServe. People mis-type
the e-mail address, typing .com when they mean .net, or leaving the word
mail off of the hostname.

Most of it is crap (ie SPAM lists that these folks have managed to get themselves
onto), but some is 'interesting', including business confidential
documents from consultants, legal agreements under discussion, and eviction notices
(uh... I think these have to be sent via physical mail to be valid)

Here are some excerpts.