FYI: Yahoo Mail Account info Alert. (fwd)

In addition to that, you'll no longer be able to get the mail from your Yahoo! mail via POP (I get mine into Outlook rather than using the webmial reader at mail.yahoo.com - this is unless you fork out some cash. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy => Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:56 AM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Re: FYI: Yahoo Mail Account info Alert. (fwd) => => => As I understand it this isn't just people with Yahoo Mail accounts, if => you're subscribed to any mailing list hosted at Yahoo (remember => they bought => out egroups), you're a target. => => Zane => => > I know a lot of y'all use Yahoo Mail.... => > => >FYI to those who use Yahoo Mail. => > => >March 29 - Tired of spam you're getting at your free Yahoo! e-mail => >account? Get ready for more. Tucked inside a privacy policy change => >the company made this week was notice that more Yahoo! e-mail => >marketing offers were coming "even if users had formerly indicated => >they were unwanted. YAHOO! GRANTED ITSELF PERMISSION to spam by => >creating a new "marketing preferences" page that lets users => >pick "yes or no" to specific categories of marketing pitches. The => >problem is, Yahoo! set every users' option to "yes" - even if long => >ago, they indicated they never wanted any Yahoo! spam. => > => >Users who don't want marketing offers from Yahoo have 60 => >days to do the following: Visit the user profile preferences page at => >http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile select "Edit your => >marketing preferences" from within the Member Information section; => >and individually change selections in a series of marketing => >categories from "yes" to "no." => > => >In e-mail marketing lingo, the process is known as "opt-out." => >But even performing that slightly cumbersome operation is no => >guarantee that Yahoo! marketing offers won't come, since the firm => >reserves the right to add marketing categories at any time. => > => >"I'd suggest re-checking periodically," writes another => >mailing list poster. => => -- => | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | => | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | => | | Classic Computer Collector | => +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ => | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | => | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | => | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | =>