Someone posted the following on the AT&T forum today regarding the huge amounts of spam being received that suddenly ended for some users (like me) on 8/27/2022.
“…some of the obvious spam going to spam and others still not. My self made filters are not working, so this means that mail that Yahoo is identifying as spam and I tell them it is not, does not work.”
This user is blaming his problem on Yahoo, but I do know users of regular free Yahoo that is not affiliated with AT&T who are still receiving masses amounts of spam that started years before it happened to me on SBCGlobal. Mine started suddenly several months ago in 2022 and ended just as suddenly on 8/27/2022. Note, though, that the Cox Help Desk emails that I did not receive were sent several days before that.