No noticable increase here. Maybe yahoo email accounts get targeted because . . . it's yahoo.

None.

I'd suggest it's a result of Yahoo, not JU.

I know when I create a new account at any of those freebie sites the box is immediately filled with SPAM.

Or maybe you triggered Stardock's new "liberal detection" software!

I guess I've been very lucky then. My original Yahoo! account is over 10 years old and I hardly get any SPAM at all.

Hey ther.

I use GMail (googlemail), it has wonderful SPAM filters and it's got almost 3000MB of mailbox space.

If you want an invitation to GMail, e-mail me at surferguy14@gmail.com

Alternatively get Mozilla's Thunderbird (skinnable) e-mail application which also has excellent SPAM filters. [link="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/"]http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/">Link

I didn't happen to think of a conspiracy theory. I guess I'm not paranoid.

Oh, but you should have....should be! Just ask 'one' who is and he'll tell you JU susses out peoples political/social views and keeps moving the goal posts if they don't measure up just right.....guess you were very lucky to eventually get in

Seriously though, Yahoo would be the culprit behind your spam increase, not JU. I no longer use Yahoo mail for that very reason over a year ago...too much unsolicited spam just from using my yahoo email addy when registering software or my membership at various sites, etc....

These days I only use Hotmail for my web based email provider, and I very rarely get spam in my inbox, in part because of the spam filters, but I think also because Hotmail more actively seeks to prevent it entering the system by data matching user reports against incoming mail to their server....well that's how it was explained to me, and that Yahoo is not so vigilant.

Or maybe you triggered Stardock's new "liberal detection" software!

Oh, man! You mean my attack on the conservative position towards Gitmo will get me more spam? NOW you tell me!

But seriously, you only see a spam increase because JU is based in Nigeria. We're all Nigerians, and it is such a blessed relief to see an American because we've all been spamming each other with precious little results, being, as we are, Nigerian. Now can you please send me all of your alternate email addresses as well as those in your address book so that I can meet my quota and Gene Nash won't give me more lashes for failing to meet my quota for the day?

I use both Yahoo and Hotmail and my Hotmail is spammed to the gills,  and Yahoo nada!  my kid says Hotmail always spams people,  and that's sure my experience.

I did have my email addy,  not in the sidebar however it could be found if someone clicked on "my journal"  which is no longer there.  THAT could be the culprit....

or else???

In the end, if you are careful about everything else, the main thing that is going to cause you to get spam is the name you use for the account. People make that argument about not getting spam on one account and getting tons on another, but never realize that one account is l33tb0Y69@whatever.com and johnsmith@whatever.com is the other.

When they shoot for email addies randomly it works like passwords. I get nothing on one account, and one that is name based gets tons, even though I have never, ever signed up for anything with the name based one. I just know that once they have the domain name, they start grinding out emails to random names hoping to hit. It goes doubly for using your first initial and your last name, as I found out to my dismay.

No spam from either - about 8 spam in yahoo a week. But I guess I dont qualify for the " Viagra " ads 

But I guess I dont qualify for the " Viagra " ads

Nor the 'longjohntiddlywhacker' enlargement ads? Crikey, even my mother and sister get those from time to time, as well as....like they're discontented/malcontented house wives or something.

Starting to feel forgotten and like a lost cause here....neglected, even. Haven't received a Viagra or 'thingwybob' enlargement ad in ages now....tho I'm perplexed as to why I occasionally got offers, when using Yahoo mail, for free membership to gay & lesbian sites. Maybe their email scanners latched on to a reference I once made to Robin Hood and his 'merry' men visiting 'gay' Paris~ to see 'Les Girls'

In any event, internet advertising can be quite sordid and invasive...second guessing peoples sexual orientation/needs and sending them unsolicited filth to generate/boost sales.