Julia Thompson wrote: > > Note: This post best viewed with a fixed-width font. > > 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
They never fixed the Y2K problem... ;-) -- Matt
