I went into my Yahoo profile and everything in here is true,
all my marketing preferences were set for Spamming.

Thanks,
Chris

Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:19:53 -0800
From: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com>
Subject: [vanagon] ADMINISTRIVIA - Yahoogroups Marketing
To: WetWesties <wetwesties@yahoogroups.com>,
vanagon@yahoogroups.com

From another list I subscribe to... Rumour has it that it
affects
Yahoogroups members.  You might want to check your 'marketing
preferences'.

Jim Arnott
List Administration

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March 29 - Tired of spam you're getting at your free Yahoo! e-
mail
account? Get ready for more. Tucked inside a privacy policy
change
the company made this week was notice that more Yahoo! e-mail
marketing offers were coming "even if users had formerly
indicated
they were unwanted. YAHOO! GRANTED ITSELF PERMISSION to spam
by
creating a new "marketing preferences" page that lets users
pick "yes or no" to specific categories of marketing pitches.
The
problem is, Yahoo! set every users' option to "yes" - even if
long
ago, they indicated they never wanted any Yahoo! spam.

Users who don't want marketing offers from Yahoo have 60
days to do the following: Visit the user profile preferences
page at
http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile select "Edit your
marketing preferences" from within the Member Information
section;
and individually change selections in a series of marketing
categories from "yes" to "no."

In e-mail marketing lingo, the process is known as "opt-out."
But even performing that slightly cumbersome operation is no
guarantee that Yahoo! marketing offers won't come, since the
firm
reserves the right to add marketing categories at any time.

"I'd suggest re-checking periodically," writes another
mailing list poster.