Re: Re: Alert: spam from Yahoo!

From: Guy Hoyle <ghoyle1_at_...>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:14:55 -0600


I can vouch for that; I went in and checked it earlier today. The URL I went to was: http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile

Guy

> > In their never-ending search for revenue, Yahoo has pulled a fast
> one on
> > us all and switched everyone's marketing preferences to "Yes". To
> fix
> > this, go to either <http://my.yahoo.com> or
> <http://groups.yahoo.com>. In
> > the upper right corner, click on "Account Info". Enter your UserID
> and
> > password if asked. Once on the Account Info page, click on "Edit
> your
> > marketing preferences." You will then come to a page of "Special
> Offers
> > & Marketing Communications" in which you have been enrolled in
> without
> > your knowledge or consent. Click any and all of the buttons to "No",
> then
> > click the "Save Changes" button. That should take care of the
> problem, at
> > least until Yahoo does something like this again.
>
> Did you actually check on this before posting it? The reason I ask is
> that it appears to be totally untrue. Yahoo doesn't even *have* a
> "Marketing Preferences" option such as you describe (or at least it
> didn't when I checked) and there's been no change to my "Special
> Offers" status, through which spam would normally be sent.
>
> Please, check the veracity of these sort of messages before forwarding
> them to the list. Thankyou.
>
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