I've gotten word of the following changes to Yahoo accounts from various sources. The paragraph below is from the LangaList (www.langa.com). I have Yahoo account - not because I use Yahoo mail, but because I'm on the MaineNPTechNet listserv, which is hosted by Yahoogroups (a free service). When I checked my own settings, they had all been changed to say that I wanted to receive 3rd-party marketing E-mail - spam. I of course changed everything back. It's bad enough when any service has a policy that defaults to "opt-in," but it's inexcusable, IMHO, to do it without notice.
Jon From the 2002-04-08 LangaList: >We recently mentioned a confusing change in Yahoo's handling of Pop mail, >but that wasn't the end of it: Yahoo followed up with a nasty policy >change in which all members of Yahoo groups apparently had their "opt-out" >preferences reset to opt-*in*--- in effect, telling the system "Yes, >Yahoo, please spam me!" If you have any Yahoo membership, it'd be a good >idea to check your member settings or you may soon get inundated with >unwanted email and paper mail: Sign in to Yahoo, click on Account Info, >and then on "Edit your Marketing Preferences." Be sure to save the changes >when you're done. Jonathan Falk Pine Tree Folk School RR 2, Box 7162 Carmel, ME 04419 (207)848-2433 <http://www.ptfolkschool.org> **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
