(web & internet & yahoo & spam) What I think about "360.yahoo", part 1

In the last 48 hours I received an invitation to "360.yahoo" (and now I have a few more invites, so if you want one, email me a line - gmail invites are also (yet) available -hundreds of).

Coming from Yahoo (very good web mail, calendar, addresses, files, search, news, etc ) I was curious.

So I am posting here, along several posts, what I think about 360.yahoo (http://360.yahoo.com).

********** part 1 **********

First a word of caution about the "Simple URL".

If you accept the simplest options you end up with a "simple url" of the form

"http://360.yahoo.com/sort_of_my_name"

and, AT THE SAME TIME, an email with the form

"sort_of_my_name@yahoo.com"

Soon the spam spiders are going to lean how to figure out your email address from your 360.yahoo links.

This can be avoided creating an alias, so your link will be something like

"http://360.yahoo.com/sort_of_my_alias"

(just send an email to

"sort_of_my_alias@yahoo.com"

only to be sure that that email does NOT exist)

However, as far as I can tell, we can not use alias in the "simple URL" blog link.

If I can not figure out a way to circumvent this problem with the blog I have to reach the conclusion that the 360,yahoo blog is only useful if you do not publish it's link, i.e., you give the links ONLY to friends.