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Have you edited your Yahoo Marketing Preferences?

You have to consider that Yahoo makes a lot of money from 'cookies' and covert admission into your machine. Cookies report back to advertisers and junk mail scammers what your preferences are, where you surf the net etc. The best way to attack yahoo's invasion of your privacy is to:
1. start clean, delete all cookies.
2. in internet explorer preferences - privacy - "block all 3rd party cookies"
3. Open a "hot mail" account. Every website you visit , always check "no" for any updates, new exciting product information, etc. If you "must" give them an email addy, give them the hotmail account. This will send the spammers there, instead of your real email accounts.

These tricks go a long way to blocking the spam and pop-ups.

regards..Tom

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----- Original Message -----
  From: Stuart Richards
  To: vpfree@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:09 AM
  Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Have you edited your Yahoo Marketing Preferences?

  On 6 Apr 2003, Les Silber wrote:

  > Can someone help me how to stop the bulk mail from coming?

  If you find out, share the info. A start might be to edit your Yahoo
  marketing preferences, if you haven't already.

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Tom, your advice likely will go a long way in eliminated unwanted
solicitations. However, simply opting out of the Yahoo! marketing
through the appropriate choices in their preference page should be
enough to avoid their marketing emails.

- Harry

tomflush wrote:

You have to consider that Yahoo makes a lot of money from 'cookies'

and covert admission into your machine. Cookies report back to
advertisers and junk mail scammers what your preferences are, where
you surf the net etc. The best way to attack yahoo's invasion of your
privacy is to:

1. start clean, delete all cookies.
2. in internet explorer preferences - privacy - "block all 3rd

party cookies"

3. Open a "hot mail" account. Every website you visit , always check

"no" for any updates, new exciting product information, etc. If you
"must" give them an email addy, give them the hotmail account. This
will send the spammers there, instead of your real email accounts.

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These tricks go a long way to blocking the spam and pop-ups.