13 Jun
2014
13 Jun
'14
1:34 a.m.
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
She also said that (as of a week ago) the attack based on stolen contact lists was continuing to flood their incoming MXes,
This statement turns out to be inoperative. Elizabeth now plausibly denies this, claiming that she never said they were still conducting a massive spam attack.[1] What's happening is that the spammers are sending a small number of probes to check whether Yahoo! (and presumably AOL as well) retracts "p=reject".
Footnotes: [1] This is true. She said they "never stopped", without specifying what they hadn't stopped.