Sonja van Baardwijk wrote: > > Make that two.... > > Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > > From my Inbox this morning: > > > > <snipped examples of spam> > > > After I tried (and failed miserably) to subscribe to Brin-l via > yahoo-groups I now have the somewhat dubious honor of being subjected to > several dozen spam mails a day. I never had a massive spam problem like > that, before I gave that particular (fortunatly expendable) mailaccount > name to yahoo. And all that misery for a failed subscription at that. > Amazing what a company will do for a bit of profit. > > Sonja > GCU: If there is even the remotest possibility of a connection to > yahoo..... DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR E-MAIL
There's a way to tell them to take you off their spam lists. They have all my e-mail addresses, and aside from possibly having my yahoo address itself getting spammed (and I don't use it for anything) I'm not getting crap from them.
They changed it from opt-in to opt-out awhile ago, and I took the action then.
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.
-- Ronn! :)
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