I'm passing this on the groups I started to remind you all to change
your personal settings if you want to avoid possible mail, calls,
etc. - Mike

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Hi everyone,

I don't know if Yahoo was planning to inform any of its lowly users
directly or not, but why would you pay attention to an email from
Yahoo anyway? Email from me, on the other hand...
Apparently the Yahoo privacy policy is changing so that basically
they can send you any damn thing they want in email, plus over the
phone and snail mail if you've provided that information!
Unless you opt out in the next 60 days.
If you hate spam as much as you should, follow the instructions
below (modified forward from someone) and change all those yes's to
no's. I just did it, and I am greatly looking forward to not
getting Yahoo spam on 30 different topics.

Yahoo is changing its Marketing/Privacy policy to automatically
enroll users to receive certain e-mail notices about Yahoo products
and services. Yahoo's new privacy policy is pretty damn invasive. I
highly recommend that you modify your options.
It's highly sleazy, but we always knew that Yahoo had no honor.
Without modification, Yahoo can send you email, USMail, and make
telephone solicitations to you. You can opt-out of them, but there
may be a limited window of opportunity to do so.
Yahoo users will be given notice and a 60-day period for the opt-
out, but might as well take care of it now.
If you want to opt out, go here and log-in:
http://groups.yahoo.com/">http://groups.yahoo.com/>http://groups.yaho
o.com/
[You can also go to http://edit.my.yahoo.com.
log in, and follow the directions below.]
Then scroll up to the top right corner and click on "Account Info."
You will be asked to provide your password again. After entering
your password, click "continue."
You will be taken to your Account Information screen.
Look under "Member Information" on your "Yahoo ID Card."
Under "Yahoo! mail addresses" is a link that says "Edit Your
Marketing Preferences." Click on it.
Make sure to select "no" for every option you don't want notices on,
including the two way down at the bottom for phone and snail mail
notices. (Note that it will probably have "yes" pre-selected for
most options - just click "no" to change it.)
Before you leave this screen, ALSO click on the option near the top
right of the page that says "Edit Email Subscriptions."
Select "no" for every option you don't want to receive e-mail on.
Then click "save changes" (top right).
Select "continue" when it takes you to the next screen. That will
take you back to your "Edit Marketing Preferences" screen.
Then click "save changes" and then click "continue."
Lots of steps, but hopefully it'll keep a lot of Yahoo SPAM out of
your mailbox.
Here's the article about this:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-870581.html
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