In late February, we began an aggressive campaign to monitor the spam problem in Yahoo! Chat using custom software called Chat Sentry. This software allows us to collect data from many public sources related to Yahoo! Chat and analyze that data based on current trends and known spam distributed across the Yahoo! Messenger network. In early March, we published our preliminary findings that indicated the amount of "Spam Bots" in Yahoo! Chat accounted for nearly 60% of all chat users. These early findings resulted in my posting a comment to the Yahoo! Messenger Blog as well as the creation of this website. Due to the overwhelming response, we continued to monitor the situation and have finished our analysis of the data collected throughout the month of March.

 

I've been getting a lot of inquiries lately about what the intent of this site is and what type of content will be posted in the future. This website was created specifically to address the issue of Spam in Yahoo! Chat. This past week I've had the opportunity to discuss this issue as well as the future of this site with several community website operators and third party developers responsible for Yahoo related applications. Most have been quite enthusiastic and have offered to provide content and assistance and as this site begins to grow more and more participating and supporting members will be added to the public directory...