By Troy Wolverton, 13 September 2002 09:15
NEWS Yahoo!'s storefronts site has made its way onto two more lists of suspected junk emailers. London-based Spamhaus, which runs a spam-blocking service, added Yahoo!'s stores site to its list of suspected spammers on Wednesday, some two weeks after the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) took a similar step. Although Spamhaus removed the stores site on Thursday after talking with the company, the site is still included on another blocking list run by Spews.org. Spamhaus took the Yahoo! site off its list after hearing from the web portal that it plans to have a new team in place next week to respond to spam complaints. Steve Linford, director of the Spamhaus Project, said: "Thousands of people were complaining. They just weren't being acted on. They didn't have sufficient staff to deal with them. These complaints were just piling up." Yahoo! was removed from the Spamhaus list after the company worked with the anti-spam group to resolve the issue, company spokeswoman Linda Pederson said in a statement. "Yahoo! Store's licence agreement explicitly forbids spamming. We take this matter very seriously," Pederson said. Troy Wolverton writes for News.com
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