From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:06:59 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>I'm really surprised at the backwards way yahoo does things, you would think
>with the volumes of mail they handle that they would go for efficiency,
>things like pipelining and restart enabled but instead they make it almost
>more cpu intensive than email servers were in 1995.

  Yahoo probably shifted to a serious tarpit mindset after the onslaught
that began last fall when spammers removed any limits on volume.  They just
opened up with everything they had and unloaded spam.   Even the biggest,
baddest, fastest email systems had to compensate to prevent having to
filter, analyze, and virus check all that crap.

   Having probably 1/4 of the total botware spam cannon volume aimed your
way changes the mindset.

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