"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 10:05 AM 3/28/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > >OK, let's see if I can figure it out again.... > > > >Go to Yahoo, sign in, go to Account Info, give your password; you'll be at > >a page with whatever info you gave them. Click on Marketing Preferences > >and start setting everything to No. > > Unfortunately, that works only if you can actually sign in. > > Some time back, when Yahoo! bought up eGroups and OneList (long before they > came up with the "opt-out" policy), they said that I had to create a > username and password for a Yahoo! account in order to keep using the > groups I was on. IIRC, it worked the first time, however, ever since, when > I try to sign in I get an "invalid username or password" error > message. Repeated requests to Yahoo! have failed to get anything but > canned responses from their automated "help" system assuring me that their > system is working properly. Without being able to sign in, I can't "set > everything to 'No'" or even delete that account and start over.
OK, can you start a *new* account and attach your e-mail address (or e-mail addresses) to the new account, and set preferences? I had to start a new Yahoo! account at some point, and while at least one of my addresses had been given to go with the old one, I was able to set it up for the new one without too much trouble.
Yes, that is what I decided I would have to do. However, I still can't delete the old account, so I will still get all the spam from it, unless I were to actually give up the AT&T e-mail account I have had since 1996 and get a new e-mail address.
Or you could get a lawyer to draft something informing them that they have 30 days to straighten out the mess, or you sue for $X per unsolicited e-mail received after that.
It does seem there should be a simpler way.
-- Ronn! :)
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