Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:08:44 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] How to kill Yahoo spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

For those of you who Yahoo, this was posted on the SMOFS list.

mjw

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From:   Craig Miller, INTERNET:craig at wolfmill.com
To:     [unknown], INTERNET:board at scifiinc.org

Date:   4/1/02 10:44 AM

RE:     Yahoo Phooey

Just received this from the folks at Film Threat.

Craig.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO OUR E-MAIL SUBSCRIBERS
==========================
===============
On March 28, Yahoo! Groups set everyone's account to the "Have your
advertisers send me mail" option no matter what folks had previously
elected
as their preference. Because this has gone from an opt-in service to an
opt-out one, if you are a member of a Yahoo! Groups-based email list (or, =
I

assume, if you have a Yahoo! e-mail account) and have no desire to
surrender
your inbox to a deluge of mail from Yahoo!'s advertisers, you have to tell
them that you don't want this mail within 60 days -- if you don't say
anything, they will just send it.
Here's how to do it:
- Go to Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) and sign in.
- Go to My Groups and click on Account Info, verify your password if it
asks
you to, which will bring up your Yahoo ID card.
- Click on 'Edit Your Marketing Preferences' and change all those Yes's
back
to No's.
- Click 'Save Changes.'

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Craig Miller       Wolfmill Entertainment          craig at wolfmill.com
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