Yahoo ID - Urgent Notice Mass Mailing

[LadyCrimson]

The following is only applicable to those list members
who have Yahoo IDs:

You may remember when you signed up for a Yahoo ID and were
asked by them if you wished to receive any "Special Offers
& Marketing Communications." Yahoo recently revised their
privacy policy. As a result, and regardless if you chose to
receive any of these "Special Offers" or not when you signed
up for your Yahoo ID, Yahoo has set every single person who
has a Yahoo ID (and those who have more than one) to "YES"
in these preferences.

This means that you may well be inundated with even more junk
mail than you are already receiving.

In order to change your settings back to whatever you had
them before, you will need to log in to you account and
physically change them. Login at the following URL - you will
be prompted for your Yahoo ID and password:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now]

The middle segment within the Member Information (email
addresses) section has a link to: "Edit your marketing
references." Click on this link and you will see all of
your settings were changed to "Yes"....meaning of course
that you will receive all kinds of "offers" from Yahoo
and their "partners".

Unless you wish to receive even more junk mail than you are
already getting, you may wish to go entire the entire page
and choose whether to receive such notices. Also, right at
the bottom of the page are other ways you could be notified
- by phone or postal mail. Unless you wish to receive
unsolicited phone calls and paper junk mail, you will need
to change these settings to "NO" also.

Once you have finished your selections, make sure you click
on the "Save Changes" button right at the bottom of the page.

Yahoo is supposedly sending out notices to all its users
re this particular change. However, it is estimated it
will take several weeks for everyone to receive their
notification. In the meantime....a considerable amount
of marketing mail could making its way to everyone's
mail boxes.

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I was wondering why I have been besieged with spam, and porn emails as well as telemarketer calls. These Yahoo people stink on ice!!

[texas_sweetie]

Thanks for the heads up

[AtlantaGAL]

Thanks! They even had the phone checked as a yes... grrrr.

[sushiosushi]

Originally posted by AtlantaGAL
Thanks! They even had the phone checked as a yes... grrrr.

LadyCrimson - Thanks for the heads up.

AtlantaGAL - You punch in your real info?

[telos2000]

Thanks for the QT , those jerks reset everything!

[dianemarie]

That would explain all the junk mail I've been receiving in my yahoo account.
Thanks for pointing this out!

[mccbridge]

Thanks for this info.

[miriama59]

Thanks for this. I checked both Bill's and my email accounts and we never got this letter! But when I clicked on your link I found out that the preferences had been changed! Thanks again.

[MariB]

Yahoo! strikes again. First they trashed the Clubs and now this. Yep, everything was checked "yes" on my preference page. Their release of a user's phone number, especially since they apparently haven't gotten around to notifying anyone of their intention, should be opt in and I hope they get in trouble for this nonsense.

[theloo]

Thanks for the warning and info!

[ginakllr]

Thank you so much for posting this. We couldn't figure out why my husband was getting so much junk mail. He rarely signs up for anything. I went through and reset the preferences for my whole family. They even did this to my teenage kids. Fortunately I never gave them my phone number or street address. Don't need anymore junk.

[buckeyemomma]

A GREAT BIG......THANK YOU

[mrbowler]

TY very much-I can't imagine the amount of junk that
would of been coming my way-Those yahoo's should have
automatically made it opt-out. With the option to opt-in.
Geez-pulling a fast one on the stupid folks

[usmgrad]

Thanks for the "heads up" on this. I know times are hard in the internet business, but resetting everyone's preferences so that we're barraged with spam is just plain sorry.

[ShainaT]

Thanks! I am so sick of getting so much junk!!!