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That's interesting, I didn't know about that at all, and I was happily using two Yahoo email accounts without realising they'd changed my marketing preferences. To be fair to Yahoo, I haven't noticed any increase in spam. So, I can't see that it's that much of a problem. In fact, I only get about one piece of spam a week, it's never anything obscene (unlike hotmail) and I'm sure the spam I do get originates from my signing up with other service somewhere. Kat _______________________________________ On Fri, 10 May 2002, Iris wrote: | At 17:32 10/05/02 +0000, you wrote: | >> Don't use Yahoo groups - you will get massive amounts of | >> spam! You can set one up on JISCmail easily. | > | >Simply not true. I use several groups and haven't received any spam. | >This is dependent on the settings. | | i second that. if you have a yahoo account with the public profile active | you'll get spam. but not simply from being member of a yahoo group. | | i also second an earlier post re. advertising. i get messages to a | non-yahoo email which i check in eudora. the most i get is a small text | advert. | | if you're using a yahoo email address you might want to check your | marketing preferences, which yahoo reset not too long ago. information here: | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/29/1833235&mode=thread&tid=111 | | iris | | | | | _____________________ | omnia mea mecum porto | | <http://www.jarmin.com/> | <http://www.demos.ac.uk/> | _______________________ |