Sorry for sending this of-topic message, but it is important for anyone on the list who has a Yahoo account and does not want to be flooded with spam. I am in two groups and a club and have already made the changes outlined below,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ISO 8601" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-04-03 01:51 Subject: [ISO8601] How to Turn Off the YahooGroups Spam. [2002-Apr-02] > This was recently posted on another Yahoo Group: > I urge everyone to do the following in response to a mysterious "change" in Yahoo!Groups that will unleash the spam flood gates: > "Go to My Groups and click on Account Info, verify your password if it asks you to, and your Yahoo ID card comes up. Click on 'Edit your Marketing Preferences' and change all those Yes's back to No's! Click 'Save Changes.'" > I did this, and I found that my own settings were OK, but many other people have found that their settings have been reverted to those which send junk mail. > > Go to <http://groups.yahoo.com/> and Log In with your Yahoo User Name and your Password, then go to the 'My Groups' option. You may have to verify your password for a second time. Some people will also get a request to verify their email address, which simply means that Yahoo will email you a special code, to the email address that you specified when you joined. You then have to enter that code on the web site. This will confirm to Yahoo that you do own, and have access to, that email address. When Yahoo sends out a Code, please note that it often takes at least ten minutes to arrive. > > I am assuming that you DO have a Yahoo Profile Name already activated. If you have joined this YahooGroup only by sending a 'subscribe' email, then you may not yet have created a Yahoo Profile. If you do not have one, then you will need to make one of those first, allocate a password for it, then join your email address to it. Yahoo will email you a code that you have to type in to verify that it is you, before you can proceed. > > If you cannot log in because you have forgotten your password, then there is a method where Yahoo can email another verification code to you, and this will then let you back in to change your password to a new one. You will see that there are some links on the Login page for this, if it is needed. > > Having correctly logged in, you need to look at the very TOP line of the 'My Groups' page. Opposite the 'Yahoo' logo there are several links on the right hand side, at the very top of the page: 'Groups Home - Yahoo! - Account Info - Help'. > > Click on the 'Account Info' link. This will bring up your 'Yahoo ID Card' and a load of settings. > > In the middle of the screen, just below 'Alternate email' and just above 'Time Zone', you will have one of two options, as follows: > > If you have a clickable link that says: 'Edit my Marketing Preferences' then you need to click on this and change all of the 'Yes' entries back to 'No', as appropriate. > If you have a line that says: 'Special Offers - Do Not Send Me Any Offers' then you do NOT need to take any further action. > While you are online, you may wish to review and update all of the other settings and preferences that Yahoo provide. > Do not forget to click on the 'Update', 'Done', or 'Finished' buttons to save all of the changes that you have just made! > Here is an extract from a part of that page: ------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Mail Address: Sign Up Now! Alternate Email 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (primary) Alternate Email 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Special Offers: Do not send me any offers -- ------------------------------------------------------ Time Zone: +0 Language & Content: English - United Kingdom Prompt for Password: Every Time ------------------------------------------------------ If your screen is as per the extract above, then you are already set up to NOT receive marketing offers. If you have a 'Marketing Preferences' option in place of the 'Special Offers' line, then you DO need to take action. Cheers, Ian.
