Re: [CANSLIM] Yahoo spam:

From: "Robert Gammon" <rgammon51@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Yahoo spam:
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 03:02:53 -0500 (CDT)
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I read the text carefully.  Yahoo added some NEW marketing 
categories.   As I best as I can recall from earlier visits, I do 
not remember seeing these before.  When they added the new 
categories, they checked them all yes.  My existing preferences 
were intact, nothing had changed there.

Robert

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:07:20 -0500, Gene Ricci wrote:

>Bill, save your ink if you want to complain to Yahoo. I did and 
they danced around the default settings for the change over were 
yes and we had to choose no... or something like that.... they 
did apologize..
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Bill Triffet 
>  To: canslim@lists.xmission.com 
>  Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:53 AM
>  Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Yahoo spam: End of this topic.
>
>
>  Harvey,
>
>  Yes. I see that now. It was clearly wrong what they did 
though. They
>  directed it ALL to my Earthlink account! Why didn't they 
direct it to my
>  Yahoo mail account??? I felt violated and have cancelled my 
account. I'm
>  also considering sending a note the the FTC as it has severely 
compromised
>  my earthlink account with junk It will take months before my 
email is
>  straightened out. (sic)
>
>  Ok. We can kill this thread now.
>
>  -Bill Triffet
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Harvey Brion" <hbrion@ieee.org>
>  To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
>  Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:39 AM
>  Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Yahoo spam [Was: Hotmail.com accounts - 
OT]
>
>
>  > If you have a Yahoo! account, you should check you privacy 
preferences.
>  > Yahoo! has made some changes to its privacy policy, and as a 
result, you
>  > might start receiving a lot of spam.
>  >
>  > To change your Yahoo! privacy preferences:
>  >
>  > Go to Yahoo! and scroll to the bottom of the page. You 
should find a
>  > link called Privacy Policy. Click on the link.  In the left 
column, look
>  > for the Marketing Preferences link. Click on it.  Log in to 
your Yahoo!
>  > account.
>  > Set the preferences to your liking.
>  >
>  > Ref:
>  >
>  
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,2116
895,00.html
>  >
>  > Gene Ricci wrote:
>  >
>  > > I saw the following on another Yahoo Group and checked it 
out, sure
>  > > enough all of my marketing preferences were changed to 
"YES". You may
>  > > want to check it out and change it to "NO". >Apparently, 
when Yahoo
>  > > was "down" recently, in addition to whatever else they 
did, they also
>  > > reset everyone's marketing preferences back to "Yes". 
These settings
>  > > not only apply to Spam, but also to junk snail mail and 
phone
>  > > solicitation as well.< Gene
>  > >
>  > >      ----- Original Message -----
>  > >      From: Bill Triffet
>  > >      To: canslim@lists.xmission.com
>  > >      Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:25 AM
>  > >      Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Hotmail.com accounts - OT
>  > >       Perhaps it was just coincidence - but the day after 
I
>  > >      registered to use
>  > >      Yahoo mail, I started receiving TONS of spam in my 
earthlink
>  > >      mail (you must
>  > >      give your real address to Yahoo) every day. I told 
them not
>  > >      to give out my
>  > >      earthlink address to their advertisers. I now have a 
huge
>  > >      blocked senders
>  > >      list in addition to a large message rules list to try 
and
>  > >      keep them out.
>  > >
>  > >      Maybe others here have had better experiences with 
them?
>  > >
>  > >      -Bill Triffet
>  > >
>  > >      ----- Original Message -----
>  > >      From: "Jeff Salisbury" 
<Jeff.Salisbury@WallStreet-LLC.com>
>  > >      To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
>  > >      Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:17 AM
>  > >      Subject: [CANSLIM] Hotmail.com accounts
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >      > Hello Canslimers,
>  > >      > If you received this message in your Hotmail.com 
account,
>  > >      would you please
>  > >      reply to this message...
>  > >      >
>  > >      > It appears to me that Hotmail is no longer 
accepting ANY
>  > >      canslim messages.
>  > >      For quite some time, both Hotmail and MSN.com have 
been
>  > >      sporadic in
>  > >      accepting canslim messages.  I would suggest that 
each of
>  > >      you avoid both
>  > >      vendors, and instead opt for a free account at 
Yahoo.com or
>  > >      Mail.com...
>  > >      >
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