
Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs 516
Go to your Account Information screen (for each and every ID you have) and about mid screen you will see "Edit Your Marketing Preferences" link. Click on it and set them back to the way you want them, otherwise get ready for *LOTS* of advertising spam type emails from Yahoo's advertisers. Note also at the bottom, that you will be marked YES for 'By US Mail' and 'By Phone' as well."
In additional Yahoo News, smagruder writes: "Starting today, I noticed that Yahoo! stopped forwarding my mail and when I go to setup/change the POP Access/Forwarding settings, they display a page for me to give them money to get my mail forwarding back. The issue: In their recent widely distributed press release, Yahoo! said that this all would start on April 24, NOT March 28!"
Update: 03/29 20:24 GMT by J : Yes, of course Yahoo is a TrustE customer. For a small fee, TrustE certifies: "You can edit your Yahoo! Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time." Isn't that great? I can edit my marketing preferences that I had no reason to know existed! Thanks, TrustE!
Update: 04/07 11:54 GMT by J : Nine days later, Yahoo notified me that these preferences existed:
From: Yahoo! <yahoo_privacy@reply.yahoo.com>
To: [me]
Subject: Message from Yahoo! about changes to our Privacy Policy and your Marketing Preferences[...]
In order to keep you up to date about our many new products
and services and how they might be of use to you, we have
created a new Marketing Preferences pagehttp://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount
within the Account Information area. It is designed to make
it easier for you to manage the marketing communications
you receive from Yahoo! and ensure you get the latest
relevant information to meet your needs. We have reset your
marketing preferences and, unless you decide to change
these preferences, you may begin receiving marketing messages
from Yahoo! about ways to enhance your Yahoo! experience,
including special offers and new features. Your new marketing
preferences will not take effect until 60 days after the date
of this mailing so you have plenty of time to decide what you
want to receive and what you don't. To change your
preferences, go to the Marketing Preferences page.
Illegal? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Illegal? (Score:5, Funny)
Laws on telemarketing lists most likely do not apply here. In a strictly legal sense, Yahoo could be considered an opt-in list since you explicitly and voluntarily signed up for the service. Because of that, they can do with your account on their servers as they wish. On the other hand, laws governing opt-out lists work because you never voluntarily signed up on a telemarketer's calling list.
Re:Illegal? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Illegal? (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh - I forgot - you don't spend time reading those, do you?
-Adam
Re:Illegal? (Score:2)
If their privacy policy states that they won't give your information out if you ask them not to, then you definitely have grounds for action if they've gone ahead and done so.
But if it doesn't, and there's nothing on the site that might imply that that is the case, then asking you what your preference is as far as marketing your personal information doesn't legally bind them to honoring that preference. It carries as much weight as a poll does.
(Though I am not a lawyer.)
not just privacy, but contract (Score:2)
They clearly state what they're offering in return for what they're taking. They provide you with a certain type of email with certain types of marketing, while you provide them information and bet battered with annoying blinking ads.
They're plain and simply not free to change this or to use information you provided for other purposes.
hawk
Re:not just privacy, but contract (Score:3, Insightful)
Even so, lawyers have been known to have differing opinions about and interpretations of law. That's why as a final tie-breaker in tough cases we sometimes refer people to a group of nine highly respected lawyers.
They're plain and simply not free to change this or to use information you provided for other purposes. Prove it. If all this does is result in you getting email from them then they have only contacted their own customers, which is not illegal. In fact, their terms of service clearly state "Yahoo provides its service to you, subject to the following Terms of Service ('TOS'), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you." Which is pretty much carte blanche to do what they want.
Furthermore their privacy policy states: Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
Finally, they clearly are in the business of providing services in exchange for your acceptance of targeted advertising. This is not SPAM (which is not typically targeted in any way). This is simply targeted advertising delivered via email.
Re:not just privacy, but contract (Score:4, Interesting)
THEN they ask you what your preference is regarding using your contact information for marketing purposes. You've already given implicit consent for them to use it by signing up in the first place (according to their privacy policy).
Now, I still consider it very shady and unethical for them to turn around and say, "I know you said no, but we don't really care," but:
a. I don't *think* there's any legal issue here; and
b. This is all assuming that these 'marketing categories' existed when you signed up in the first place. Their privacy policy seems to imply that they can add 'marketing categories' to their site later and assume an 'opt-in' policy for everyone that doesn't explicitly re-visit and opt-out.
So while I'm just as annoyed at Yahoo! as everyone else is, and find that this practice (assuming it was even deliberate) to be very shady, it's definitely arguable as to whether or not legal retaliation is warranted or possible.
(In my opinion.)
Re:Illegal? (Score:3, Funny)
Surely they can't retroactively change that agreement.
Of course they can change the agreement. try to imagine dealing with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back ("I have changed the conditions of our deal, pray that I do not change them again!") That's what all that fine print at the bottom of the contract is :) But seriously, you don't really believe any company adheres to its "privacy policy" do you? :)
Re:Illegal? (Score:2, Funny)
Thank You for your Post (Score:4, Funny)
[Y] Spam
[Y] Pr0n
[Y] support HP merger
[Y] something..something...cowboyneal
Have a nice day
New York State (Score:2)
___
Re:Illegal? (Score:2)
The Bright Side (Score:2)
POP hasn't worked for about a week (Score:2, Informative)
I use this as my "junk" account, anyway, so it doesn't bother me too much. But it's annoying that they can (and will) change my preferences for me. What else are they changing (or monitoring) without my consent?
Re:POP hasn't worked for about a week (Score:2, Informative)
Yahoo only provides POP access if you agree to accept some spam as part of Yahoo Delivers. The yes/no setting for this is just under all the marketing preferences, and I'm guessing that turning it off will instantly block your POP3 connections.
Civil Case? (Score:2)
IANAL, but I wonder if there is an opportunity for a Class Action case here? Does Yahoo! have the right to do this?
I must say, Yahoo! seems to have gone way downhill in the past year or two. I just don't even go there anymore.
Re:Civil Case? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Civil Case? (Score:2)
Re:Civil Case? (Score:2)
Re:Civil Case? (Score:2)
I tell ya what I would pay a for, the ability to remove the stupid yahoo advertisements from the bottom of my emails (you can pay another 20$ a year to do this via pop3 but it dosen't effect your webmail).
here's the direct link (Score:2, Informative)
oh god, everything is marked "yes"!!!!!!!
Re:here's the direct link (Score:5, Informative)
Cruel Irony. (Score:3, Insightful)
If everyone picked two other Yahoo users and emailed this link to them along with an explanation of why they should click it and asking them to pass it on to two other Yahoo accounts. Nearly everyone could have this turned off in a matter of days.
The irony of this is that it would be using their intended medium for marketing to anti-market.
Re:Cruel Irony. (Score:3, Informative)
Just maybe (Score:3, Interesting)
But they claimed it was a bug in the system, so we can't fault them, right?
Whoops . . . (Score:5, Funny)
The good news... (Score:5, Informative)
Damn! Another site to boycott. (Score:2)
Past Yahoo! Behavior (Score:4, Interesting)
The right to spam? (Score:4, Insightful)
free and publically accessable system, don't they
have the right to do whatever they want with
the default settings? Granted they due operate
on the sole basis of being used, but I wouldn't
get up in arms if something that I used for
free just up and changed one day in some way
that I didn't agree with. If it really has
such a huge negative reaction from enough people
then yahoo make other changes. However somehow
i doubt that the hundreds of thousands of yahoo
users are all in that slashdot mindset.
there are alot of droids out there.
Re:The right to spam? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The right to spam? (Score:2, Interesting)
free and publically accessable system, don't they have the right to do whatever they want with the default settings?
Sure they do, but why does that preclude just being decent about this kind of thing instead of just doing what they want and inconveniencing people? Why couldn't they have emailed all users and warned them and given them a link to turn off all the spam? Someone at Yahoo has committed the same breach of public trust that Amazon.com is guilty of which is precisely why I won't do business with Amazon.com ever--because they have given me no reason to trust them. Likewise, I wouldn't buy anything from Yahoo (should they ever try any sales ventures) as I don't trust them either. Bear in mind, this isn't the first time they've futzed around with their users in this manner.
So, yes, nobody is denying them their right to do as they please with their free services, but at the same time, they should recognize that the trust of the public and their own users (paying or otherwise) is a valuable resource and a good thing to have. These kinds of moves, done without notice, erode that kind of trust and sully the name-recognition/branding that they clearly take for granted. Most online companies would kill for the kind of branding that Yahoo has managed.
--Rick
Re:The right to spam? (Score:3, Interesting)
When I logged in a minute ago to reset the marketing preferences, I found that not only had they signed me up for email spam, but they displayed my home address and phone number and had me signed up for snail mail spam and telemarketing.
So no, they're not collecting due compensation for free services, they're taking advantage of the my status as a paying customer. I'm going to find a new ISP, and I'm going to switch all my small business Web site clients as well, because they deserve better. To hell with Yahoo.
Re:No they dont. Illegal. (Score:2)
POP Access disabled... (Score:5, Informative)
To reenable it, you need to go back and turn the Yahoo Delivers! option back on. POP Access/Forwarding require you to agree to this. Once that is done, you should be able to go back into your mail settings and check your settings.
Once I did this, it gave the options for POP/Forwarding access.
You got your facts a little mixed up (Score:2, Informative)
This could shoot them in the ass.... (Score:3, Insightful)
These marketing data, as set by the user, could have been a very valuable commodity to sell to other companies. Those companies would have a very good idea of what to market to these users as a result. This makes this kind of information quite valuable. However, in resetting all of the user's preferences to be interested in everything, and given that most users will probably not give a rat's ass and change it, then these data become worthless to 3rd parties because it does not provide them with any new information. So effectively, Yahoo killed off an asset that could have been worth the money to rent and/or sell to others.
Re:This could shoot them in the ass.... (Score:2)
Re:This could shoot them in the ass.... (Score:2)
I suppose that advertisers would find it interesting that I'm a female born in 1901. I wonder what city I gave them? probably new york.
On hind site though, I wish I had given them my cell phone number. $500 for every incident of unsolicited calls would be really nice to get, considering todays ecconomy.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
...Yahoo announced that it will change its marketing slogan from "Do you, uh, Yahoo?" to "You WILL Yahoo."
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Disgusting... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's one thing to activate "Yes" on all those email spam options, but I provided Yahoo with my address and phone number when I made a credit card purchase through Yahoo Travel. I'm pretty sure I was told that these would be kept confidential and were mainly for the purpose of credit card verification. At any rate, I trusted them with these details.
But it turns out they put "Yes" on my phone number and physical mailing address, as well.
I'm really disgusted with Yahoo on this. They've gone too far.
Re:Disgusting... (Score:2)
Just checked my account. (Score:2)
I have noticed that the mail-forwarding has ended. All of my pr0n stays on yahoo.
Re:Just checked my account. (Score:3, Interesting)
http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount [yahoo.com]
See the posts above to find the link that already selects "no" for everything and all you have to do is click "ok".
Sure, it's bad on principle... (Score:3, Insightful)
All I know is that whoever lives at 123 Fake St. in my town is going to be very offended at the manner in which mail is addressed to them.
Re:Sure, it's bad on principle... (Score:3, Funny)
WoW! Exciting New Features! Hooray! (Score:2, Interesting)
I've been trying to get my parents online for a couple of years now. Not an easy task when I live thousands of miles away and can't provide much in the way of instruction. So far its been a nightmare. Machines pre-installed with the full trojan-horse marketing one expects from a windows machine. Their doors to the web, AOL, MSN... all of it making their experience feel like getting 500 new cable channels that are all just different versions of the Home Shopping Channel. Email with a GUI that looks like Mickey Mouse has hacked your pop mail account. Lots of shiny clunky flashy advertising for people that really don't buy shit anyway...
The desperation with which corporations and their advertising machines come after us makes me very uneasy about the stability and future of our economy. The pyramid scheme can't hold... I can't afford/don't need any more crap.
Thanks to Slashdot and this community (Score:2)
Bastards.
good for this AC (Score:3, Interesting)
well whaddya know (Score:2)
I went to this url:
And sure enough everything was set to "yes".
But what I want to know is, why on earth would you give Yahoo! your real address and telephone number?? My account is all lies.
Then again, I only use Yahoo to track my portfolio.. I hardly use any of the services.
Re:well whaddya know (Score:4, Informative)
I found both my home and work addresses AND phone numbers! I quickly deleted them, but as security conscious as I am, I had no idea Yahoo was saving that stuff away for future marketing "opportunities".
Please everyone go check!
Ok, I just tested this (Score:5, Informative)
So I don't know about other people who say they've already set these to "no," but at least for new accounts you're signed up for all of it whether you want to be or not. Bastards.
This is implied by their privacy policy (Score:5, Insightful)
Related Yahoo changes (Score:3, Informative)
If Yahoo is permanently forcing users to browse higher-bandwidth versions of these pages, then they just forced me to stop using their service. I'm not interested in syncing a big bloated monster of a page to my palm pilot, thankyouverymuch.
Good thing Google just launched a headline browser page [google.com].
How to delete Yahoo account (Score:3, Informative)
Your account will remain in their database for 90 days, then poof gone, but the account is deactivated. For what that's worth. Peace of mind?
If you are pissed off.... (Score:2)
Kidding (Score:2, Funny)
We SO just have to wait and see...
For some more info (Score:5, Informative)
CNET had an article [com.com] on this yesterday. In brief, Yahoo! split their Marketing Preferences into a bunch of categories, and defaulted the new categories to opted-in. They are mailing out notices (a process that will take a few weeks) telling people about the new preferences. They then have 60 days to opt-out.
Re:For some more info (Score:3, Interesting)
All well and good. But the default should be to opt out. If you really want the email you'd set it up. But as a default the system should be as un-intrusive as possible.
OK, I know. I'm living in a fantasy world. But that's how it should be. Since they chose to do it their way, I don't see how they have any defense to charges that they are abusing user trust and misusing user data.
Just pure evil. Phone & snail mail spam TOO? (Score:2)
Other Delivery Indicate other ways you want to receive the special offers and marketing communications you have selected.
via U.S. mail [X] Yes Novia phone [X] Yes No
Ugggh... spam is ugly (Score:2)
Enter these in your home/work preferences, and only turn off the email spams:
Yahoo! Canada [yahoo.com]
106 Front Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1E1
Phone: 416.341.8605
Fax: 416.341.8800
------------------
Yahoo! Inc. [yahoo.com]
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94089
Tel. (408) 349-3300
Fax. (408) 349-3301
Tel. 408-349-2000 [yahoo.com]
I'm sure yahoo would LOVE to hear from their advertisers any day!
Does anybody still use Yahoo? (Score:2)
** Just do what I did!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:** Just do what I did!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:** Just do what I did!! (Score:5, Informative)
root@127.0.0.1 is not a valid address. Sending email to such address usually gives some error like unrouteable mail domain "127.0.0.1" because there's no MX record in DNS for 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa (but I'm not sure if it would work even if there was such record, I'm too lazy to test it). Use root@[127.0.0.1] if you want email to literal ip address bypassing the standard MX resolving (see RFC 822 [faqs.org]). But the mail server can be configured to reject them, and e.g. my server will give you this error: root@[127.0.0.1] domain literals not allowed.
So the root@localhost is probably the the best choice (but it still sometimes may not work as you expect, if the "localhost" is not set as local domain of SMTP server). But remember that even when you make them spam local root mailbox, it's usually their own account, not the one of their ISP.
When I have to ever register with working email I make alias like spam-from-yahoo.com@my.domain so I always know who sends spam and I can always deactivate such alias. But I have yet to see anyone selling my spam-from-their.domain@my.domain address to anyone.
If you can't easily edit /etc/aliases on
your mail server
(and if you're not your own
postmaster, it's usually true)
check out
spamgourmet self-destructing disposable email addresses [spamgourmet.com]:
I don't use it because I have my own mail server and I can do whatever I want (or whatever I can) with my mail address, but spamgourmet [spamgourmet.com] seems to be great if you just have one mailbox somewhere like most of the people.
Re:** Just do what I did!! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:** Just do what I did!! -- And risk losing acct (Score:3, Informative)
In consideration of your use of the Service, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (such information being the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Yahoo has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Yahoo has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
Been doing that for a while (Score:5, Funny)
Yahoo insists on storing CC # for POP after 04/24 (Score:2, Interesting)
pop3/forwarding DOES stop on April 28th (Score:2, Informative)
The reason your POP3 stopped now is likely because you unsubscribed from the "yahoo delivers!" option when you went to the account information. Yahoo delivers has always been a prerequisite to using pop3 or forwarding. Once you sign back on to it, you'll be able to start the pop3 again.
The yahoo delivers thing is not that annoying, as I have only gotten mail from it like once a month, and a lot of it has been genuinely interesting. The other stuff mentioned in this story you should definitely unsubscribe from though.
Send it all to their door. (Score:2)
Rocketmail customers? (Score:2, Interesting)
From their site (Score:2)
Of course who reads e-mail that comes from a yahoo account. They probably sent it and it got caught in a filter.
Something else interesting is that since I've just gone to Yahoo's site, now when I hit F3 to repeat my last search in IE, the Yahoo homepage pops up in a little sidebar window. Coincidence?
Let's take "opt-in by default" to a new level (Score:2)
Dear Yahoo,
By copy if this letter, I am opting out of all marketing lists; my contact information is not to be used by Yahoo for marketing purposes, nor is it to be sold, shared, leased, lent, or revealed to any third parties. This letter supersedes any website settings and is in response to all past, present, and future requests for marketing permission. Any future requests for permission will be ignored, since this letter will serve as your notification until revoked by me in writing.
Should you make use of my contact information anyway, I will invoice you $5000 per message as a "reading fee". Abuse of my contact information constitues your agreement to pay the "reading fee", in addition to collection costs, court fees, and reasonable attorney's fees. I understand that $5000 per message is quite expensive -- do not use the service unless you intend to pay the fee.
I would love to see a service that offered to auto-send this kind of letter to all the "opt-in-by-default" morons. Even better if it could help facilitate the collection process.
Yahoo contact info (Score:2, Informative)
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-349-2000
What THEY say (Score:4, Informative)
[...] we have reset marketing preferences for some of our users. If you are one of those users, unless you decide to change these preferences, you may begin receiving marketing messages from Yahoo! about ways to enhance your Yahoo! experience, including special offers and new features.
Yahoo! is notifying users of these changes to marketing preferences via email. Your new marketing preferences will not take effect until 60 days after the date the email is sent to you so you have plenty of time to decide what you want to receive and what you don't. To change your preferences, go to the Marketing Preferences [yahoo.com] page.
Well, it doesn't look that outrageous. Still, there's no hint as to why they did it.
The Fine Print (Score:2)
Yahoo offers are GREAT!! Opt-in!! (Score:5, Funny)
But I just noticed that my street address and phone number are way out of date in my Yahoo account. I just updated it. Here's my new street address, to which all my paper mail will be sent: Of course, no one but me should be using that street address. I wouldn't want to get flooded with a bunch of paper spam at "my" street address, so don't any of you go changing your street address to send me any of your offers. No sir, that would not be very nice. Don't do that.
How to get your email. (Score:3, Informative)
If you're like many, and haven't enabled pop3 access until now, you are probably discovering that they aren't making it obvious how to enable pop3 forwarding for you. Makes it kind of hard to get your email off their system before it becomes fee based, doesn't it?
What they aren't telling you is that until April 24th, the flag they are using to control whether you have pop3 access is still changable by you!
Here's what you do:
Hope that helps some of you.
Get used to it (Score:3, Insightful)
Yesterday I wrote an article on how Google, for all its good Netizenship, has sold out to the spaming industry.
If you enter the search query "bulk email" you'll see that Google is quite happy to play its role in the promotion of spamware and spamming services -- by way of the list of paid-advertisements down the right-hand side of the page promoting such products and services.
Surprisingly, I had a raft of feedback from readers who seem to think that there's nothing wrong with Google carrying paid advertising for the promotion of spamware and spamming services.
I know that over the past seven years I've started and run (and sold) a number of very successful ad-funded online publications and I've never felt that I had to stoop so low as to accept advertising dollars from spammers.
Perhaps I'm just one of a dying breed of entrepreneurs who are prepared to put his money where his mouth is in the battle against spam.
I see this latest move by Yahoo to simply be part of a slow but inevitable move towards the day when we're all forced to swallow our daily diet of spam along with the few little morsels that are actually real email.
Easy way around all of this crap (Score:3, Interesting)
precocious, huh
The important thing is the age - if you're less than 13 they don't bombard you with any crap at all...
Simon.
Re:Shit happens (Score:2, Funny)
It wasn't explicit (Score:4, Informative)
You got an email saying that their privacy policy had been changed and to click a link to go review your personal settings. I just happened to notice the marketing ones. So they can plausibly argue (in court) if they have to that they did tell users to go review the settings.
Or is this a marketing ploy of some sort?
Well of course it is.
Re:It wasn't explicit (Score:2)
Not everyone got such an E-mail, I belong to a large Yahoo group and one of our members posted to let us know, but Yahoo never sent us anything.
Re:Question... (Score:2)
Re:Question... (Score:2)
Thanks whoever submitted this story!
Re:Question... (Score:2)
From what we can tell here, they sent the notification only to people who previously had checked "yes" for service change notification preferences.
So the only people who got a note about the update were the ones who didn't care enough to turn these off in the first place.
Like many, I'm more than a little peeved by this. If this is "okay," then every website you've ever given contact info to can do the same, claiming "Of course we didn't tell you we were starting to sell your name again. You told us not to send unsolicited mail!"
Re:Its been fun, but we're done (Score:2, Interesting)
No spam since...in my inbox anyway.
Re:Confirmed? (Score:2)
-Mark
Re:Confirmed? (Score:2)
Before you start whining and moaning about accountability, maybe you should take the five seconds necessary to do some research yourself. The entire point of the article was that Yahoo is slamming its users' preferences without notice, which is why you didn't recieve a notice, genius.
Re:confirmation of reset prefs? (Score:2)
Not a g00d idea for f4k3 (Score:2)
Re:Not a g00d idea for f4k3 (Score:2)
Re:Not a g00d idea for f4k3 (Score:2)
So what options are there for people who need free email (well, "need" is a pretty strong word - let's say that unless it's free, they'll just live without it)? What's a good site to go to that doesn't have those kinds of clauses in their agreement-thinger?
Re:It is (was) a free service (Score:4, Informative)
I guess this is thier last chance to screw you before they have to stop using the "its a free service" excuse.
Free service? Not POP/SMTP access or forwarding of Yahoo! Mail... I've been quietly abandoning my (previously useful) Yahoo accounts. I suppose they remain useful, but not at $20/year. Call me Scottish, but for only twice that, I can register another domain and have thousands more e-mail addresses.
At 09:42 PM 3/20/2002 -0800, Yahoo wrote:
Hello,
Important service announcement regarding your POP3 or Mail Forwarding service. Please read on.
Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers.
If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe to our improved package that allows you to:
Subscribe before April 24th [yahoo.com] and get the first year of service for just $19.99. That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99.
Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address.
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team
For further information, please read our frequently asked questions. Please note that your Yahoo! Delivers settings will not be affected.
*Applies only to email sent through the Yahoo! SMTP servers.
OT: Automating Webmail? (Score:3, Interesting)
Free service? Not POP/SMTP access or forwarding of Yahoo! Mail... I've been quietly abandoning my (previously useful) Yahoo accounts.
Off-topic, but does anyone know of any scripts which will automate the retrieval of webmail messages and queue them in your regular mail spool?
Re:How do you know they are reset automatically? (Score:2, Informative)
Yahoo users will now automatically have their marketing preferences set to accept updates from a smattering of Yahoo's business. Previously, people were offered one option to either accept or reject product notices when first registering on the site. The new preferences page includes offerings ranging from job listings to new media products and inclusion in Yahoo's user surveys, among other things.
Yahoo users will have 60 days upon receiving notice to opt-out of these promotions.
Re:Don't Change The Prefs to "NO" (Score:3, Informative)
There are plenty of sites that offer free email addresses and would be happy to forward to one of those.