Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:22:10 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to kill Yahoo spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> 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.'

Note that this does not apply just to Yahoo! Groups.  You have to do
this for every Yahoo! account you have.

Bleah.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
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