[Sca-cooks] Fw: Yahoo turns EVIL -please read

Randy Goldberg MD goldberg at bestweb.net
Fri Mar 29 08:19:13 PST 2002


I urge all of you to read the letter below, and immediately go to Yahoo
and follow the instructions on how to unsubscribe yourself from this
Yahoo-sponsored SPAM.

> lifted from another yahoo-hosted list:
>
>
> If you're using Yahoogroups (and you probably are, since this list is
> run through Yahoogroups), make sure you go and change your profile.
> Yahoo has just made a sneaky change to everybody's 'Marketing
> Preferences', the result of which will be a load of spam. To change
> them back here's what you need to do to avoid all the ads:
>
> Go to My Groups and click on Account Info in the upper right hand
> corner, verify your password if it
> asks you to, and your Yahoo ID card comes up. Click on 'Edit your
> Marketing Preferences' and change ALL the Yes buttons to NO.
> Click Save Changes.
>
> Note well: If you actually gave them your address and phone number
> in your profile, they've signed you up for phone
> and postal spam as well as email.  Make sure they are marked NO as
> well. You may also want to consider changing the phone number to
> something phony (you CAN'T delete it, it REQUIRES a number).




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