[TANSTAAFL. Folks irked at this should (a) change their Yahoo preferences, (b) urge list owners to move their lists to a spam-free-zone, or (c) use a special email address for Yahoo groups that's backed by a set of rules allowing only list email through and flagging the other stuff. --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:36:14 -0800 (PST) From: Annalee Newitz <brainsploitationat_private> Subject: yahoo's "spam permission" scheme To: declanat_private MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 1bae4fc168dddf55f7dd8570d03112c5 Hi Declan. I thought the politechnicals would be interested to hear about Yahoo's new spam scheme. Without making any formal announcements to their members, they've added a new "marketing preferences feature" to their membership accounts. Here are the details (from another list I'm on): From: Barbara Karmazin <selkiewifeat_private> To: broaduniverseat_private Subject: [broaduniverse] Yahoo Spam Mail Yahoo has sneakily added something something called "Marketing Preferences" to your account that gives Yahoo permission to send you spam through e-mail, the U.S. mail and phone, unless you check the "No" option of a series of buttons. At the moment, Yahoo has defaulted all the buttons to the "Yes" option. To keep them from spamming you --"with your authorization" -- you need to go to your account page and check the "No" buttons. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com and sign in. At top-right of the page click on "Account Info." You will be asked to confirm your password. Once on your account page, scroll down to "Member Information" and click on "Edit your marketing preferences" (the link immediately below your email addresses). On the next page, you'll find a list of "Special Offers & Marketing Communications," followed by the line "I would like to receive information about..." and a list of services Yahoo is offering. You'll also find all the "Yes" buttons checked. ===== Annalee Newitz tech * pop * sex 415.487.2559 - cell: 415.378.4498 www.techsploitation.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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