Email Accounts, the REAL test

[soybean]

Here's another idea to kick around -   supposing that some sort of email harvesting software found this thread and those email addresses,   is it possible that yahoo email addresses are more attractive "bait",  and noted-
whereas the others are not?   

I wondered about that, too.  I quite sure Yahoo does not sell email addresses.  As I said in an earlier post, I've had a Yahoo account for 5 or 6 months and have not received any spam; as I said in that post, I do not use the account; it exists because I use Yahoo Messenger.

[WillyW]

Here's another idea to kick around -   supposing that some sort of email harvesting software found this thread and those email addresses,   is it possible that yahoo email addresses are more attractive "bait",  and noted-
whereas the others are not?   

I wondered about that, too. 
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and I forgot to end with:   If they are more attractive,   then I wonder why?

[Zylstra]

These email accounts are not being used for anything else.
They are only being used for the purpose of testing.

Now, in all honesty, the Gmail account is not the same address as the Yahoo and Hotmail account, due to my memory... but then, in that case, Hotmail should get as much junk as Yahoo, so I dont see that being a problem altering ...

[soybean]

These email accounts are not being used for anything else.
They are only being used for the purpose of testing.

What's your point?  We know These email accounts are not being used for anything else.  But, they're posted on this website and, thus, have their butts exposed to the public, to the "web crawling harvesters".  My and WillyW's Yahoo accounts are not (see posts #19 and #20) exposed on a website and have received no spam.

Now, in all honesty, the Gmail account is not the same address as the Yahoo and Hotmail account, due to my memory... but then, in that case, Hotmail should get as much junk as Yahoo, so I dont see that being a problem altering ...

  They're all different, one is Gmail, one is Hotmail, and one is Yahoo.   

[Zylstra]

These email accounts are not being used for anything else.
They are only being used for the purpose of testing.

What's your point?  We know These email accounts are not being used for anything else.  But, they're posted on this website and, thus, have their butts exposed to the public, to the "web crawling harvesters".  My and WillyW's Yahoo accounts are not (see posts #19 and #20) exposed on a website and have received no spam.

WillyW asked again to confirm that they were not being used for anything else

They have all been exposed to the public, yes, but why the Yahoo account?

It could be that more spambots are customized to work for Yahoo, and not Hotmail or Gmail.
Gmail I can understand, but both Yahoo and Hotmail are at the top of the list for email accounts...