If anyone on here has a Yahoo id for email and/or Yahoogroups, you'll want to read this. Even though it specifies Yahoogroups, it appears to also be the case for folks with a Yahoo email account, so login as normal and then go to your account info.

Yahoo has apparently made a sneaky change to everybody's "Marketing | Preferences," changing all their "No's" to "Yes," the result of which | will be a load of spam. To change it back: | | Go to Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) and sign in. Go to My | Groups and click on Account Info, verify your password if it asks you | to, and your Yahoo ID card comes up. Click on 'Edit your Marketing | Preferences' and change all those Yes's back to No's. Click Save | Changes.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

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Annoying Ploy!

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

Errr...sorry bout the formatting.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

...and, as for hotmail spam; one of my business accounts is linked / directed to my hotmail, I just discovered (yesterday = about 2 weeks late!) that my email for this account has been treated as junk mail, simply because I had activated the foolproof / user friendly "Junk Mail" filter :-(

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2002

I've never had any junk mail to my hotmail account so haven't set up any filters. I got the impression that they filtered out any names that weren't in your address book. Annoying cos I kept sending stuff to my son and it took ages to realise it was going direct to the junk! I was using my uni address so wouldn't have thought that would be seen as dodgy.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2002

Ciara - I think this "Marketing Preferences" page is a new one. However, as you suggest they have kindly registered everyone for this feature without asking them, and also checked "YES" to every single category. Now wasn't that nice fo them, to save you all that bother!

Thanks for the tip-off.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2002