(I received about three versions of this warning today. This one came first, from Harvey Newstrom of Extropy Institute, and is the most detailed.)
Yahoo has added a new section to your “Account Info” that requests spammers to send you unsolicited e-mail. They have set this on for everybody. Everybody’s default settings are initially set to “yes” meaning that everybody who uses Yahoo is allegedly requesting advertisers to send unsolicited e-mail to them!
Follow these instructions to turn these settings off:
- Go to groups.yahoo.com
- Click on “Account Info” in the upper-right corner
- Click on “Edit your marketing preferences” down under “Member Information” under “Yahoo! Mail Address”
- Click all the buttons to “No” for Special Offers and Marketing Communications
- Scroll down to make sure you get all the checkboxes
- Look at the very bottom of the page fto click “No” for U.S. Mail and Phone calls.
- Press the “Save Changes” button
- Click “continue” to confirm your changes
- Click the “Finished” button