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The Fool wrote:
> The road to 1984 is partially paved with good intentions. Yahoo
> secretly, behind everybody's back, changed the privacy settings that
> everyone had set personally when they signed up, to allow Yahoo to spam
> them, and sell personal information about them to everybody who want to
> pay for it. (Yahoo also changes HTML email messages, Frex: the string
> 'eval' becomes 'review', and 'medieval' becomes 'medireview'). Yahoo
> gives you an ID that never expires to 2015. Microsoft did the same thing
> as Yahoo, and gives a permanent ID the lasts until 1937.
^^^^
1937?
Julia
