While I don't use it for my primary email, I do rely on Yahoo mail a lot. I'm involved in several online forums on Dreamweaver and HTML through Yahoo, so I read all of those through their mail. I also use the Yahoo account whenever I sign up with a web site I'm not entirely sure I can trust.

So here's what pisses me off about them: it's becoming very apparent that they have some kind of sweetheart deal with DeepDiscount.com and MyPublisher.com whereby Yahoo allows emails to come in from them even if I have identified them as spam. I've never knowingly done any business with either of them, but I keep getting email from them. Every single time a message comes in from either of them, I click the "Spam" button to mark them as spam, but that doesn't stop the email. And no, this isn't a situation where it's coming through because they keep switching email addresses - the messages are always from promotions@deepdiscount.com and always from the same address as mypublisher.com. (I don't have one of their messages handy to check the address, but I just got another one from DeepDiscount.) I've gone in and verified that those addresses are in fact in my blocked senders folder, and sure enough they are. So the only logical explanation I can come up with is that Yahoo has some kind of special "allowed spammer" status for these folks.

That's just not right. I know that Yahoo is a free service, and I appreciate what they do, but come on. If you're going to claim to have a spam filter, and claim to allow me to block senders, then freaking let me do it, no matter who the sender is. Or at the very least, be up front about it: "If you use this service, you will receive messages from certain preferred vendors, and there is no way for you to block them." As is, I can't even find a place on Yahoo to complain to them about this.