Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:12:52 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to kill Yahoo spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

BTW - I am suddenly getting e-mails from total strangers trying to sell me
stuff, and until recently (i.e., we started the WSFA list) I wasn't getting
it.  I don't know if there is a correlation or not, but it is an observation.

At 08:08 PM 04/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>For those of you who Yahoo, this was posted on the SMOFS list.
>
>mjw
>
>-------------Forwarded Message-----------------
>
>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.'
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Craig Miller       Wolfmill Entertainment          craig at wolfmill.com
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Candy