# Geocities **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 24, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119 "2004-03-24T13:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119/1 "2004-03-24T13:07:20Z")
Having signed up for Yahoo! Plus I noticed that I had many tools to combat spam newly available to be. One of these showed that most was coming from my old [geocities.com](http://geocities.com) address which I haven’t used since about 1996 but is still alive. So I went to Geocities and deleted my account there but it seems that I’m still receiving the mail. Does anyone know how to finally delete it? Google just points me to Yahoo! which owns Geocities now but doesn’t seem to show me how to kill my old email address… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119/2 "2004-03-24T13:34:11Z")
Do you mean that you have been receiving spam emails that appear to be from your Geocities account? If so, they are almost certainly _not_ coming from that account. A lot of spam/virus emails use spoofed addresses, so are more likely originating from some other machine that has both your old and new addresses in an address book somewhere. Maybe the spammers are even using their harvested email address lists to spoof genuine “From” addresses on their junk, so a virus may not even be responsible at all. (This method is my own conjecture; I don’t knw if they actually do this, but I wouldn’t put it past them.) Deleting the Geocities account won’t make any difference, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119/3 "2004-03-24T13:41:52Z")
I mean that the spam is being sent _to_ my Geocities address (I spread it far and wide back in the cheerful 90’s when I was happy to get spam just to have something to read). I have a filter in my Yahoo! a/c that sends any mail sent to @geocities.com to a special folder. Looking at about 73 per day atm (that used end up in my Yahoo! inbox). I just want to make it so that if you email [ptegan@geocities.com](mailto:ptegan@geocities.com) it’ll bounce back as ‘mailbox unreachable’ or something, i.e. kill the address… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119/4 "2004-03-24T13:45:21Z")
I see. Can’t you just delete the forwarding rule? ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocities/236119/5 "2004-03-24T13:55:21Z")
Nope. I don’t think so. When Yahoo! bought Geocities they forwarded the geocities accounts to Yahoo! inbox. In my options I see… \*\* Yahoo! ID: ptegan Yahoo! Mail Address: [ptegan@yahoo.com](mailto:ptegan@yahoo.com) GeoCities Mail Address: [ptegan@geocities.com](mailto:ptegan@geocities.com)\*\* But no where does it let me delete the geocities address.