use yahoo!? - read this now!?!?! theres a tidal wave of spam on the way

[CrashedStar]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24683.html

email spam and telephone and snail mail spam if you filled in the correct details

the internet is dying...

cs

[asheep_uk]

Thanks for the heads up. I like the title of the report Yahoo! Break! Privacy!

The internet does seem to be dying, but it will not die completly, too many use it.

Again, thanks for the info. I have deleted all my accounts, don't use them anymore, its all snooboo!

btw, who signed in as flashkit/arse monkey on the snooboo.com forum? I just wana know.

[myfavoritecritic]

thanks for the info, too bad for them i gave them the simpsons address and a fake phone #.
hope msn will not do this.

[jamble]

Cheers CS, i can't believe the amount of things I was now magically signed up for!!

[aversion]

hmmm dated april 1st......

[CrashedStar]

Originally posted by aversion
hmmm dated april 1st......

whats dated april 1st?

very very much doubt this is a joke, its kinda like mcdonalds saying 'oh, we sold some burgers yesterday that where infected with bse' then awhile later saying 'only jokin, april fools!'

cs

ps. i know bse aint harmful to humans... but would you eat it if you knew?!

[jman5]

Thanks for the heads up, but I never give out valid information

[asheep_uk]

I have check on other sites, it isn't a hoax.

News article: Posted: 03/04/2002 at 10:09 GMT

[OMEGA]

I use Yahoo every once in a while and already it is still always bombarded with porno messages and such. I don't use it much any more because of that and the fact that Yahoo sucks.

[asheep_uk]

I am afraid to say it (4th time this week) but the only one I have NEVER had a problem with is Microsoft's Hotmail! I have praised M$ so much this week! I am going mad...

[CrashedStar]

lol - i've never had a major problem with yahoo
have with hotmail! spam allllllllll day long, i've just given up on it

but in saying that i've recently started gettong tons of yahoo im adverts - apparently its not new, but it is to me

cs

[robertpenner]

Thank you CrashStar, I changed my settings right away. For the longest time, I would rarely get spammed on my Yahoo address--maybe once a week on average. Now it's more often.

If you have a Yahoo account, go here to change your settings:
http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount

There are 12 different "Special Offer" categories you can remove yourself from, and don't miss the "Contact by phone" options below as well.

[largefry89]

well its not really a big deal to me ive NEVER recieved spam or"junk" mail since i got my email account there

not too big a deal so far so all i did was change preferences

thanks for the warning though

i heard about something yahoo might charge for email accounts is this true?

[aversion]

Originally posted by CrashedStar

very very much doubt this is a joke, its kinda like mcdonalds saying 'oh, we sold some burgers yesterday that where infected with bse' then awhile later saying 'only jokin, april fools!'

only if the story was actually posted by yahoo themselves

but i doubt it too, it's just that there are so many april 1st stories still popping up

[Hannibal Smith]

The only Yahoo service I use is... well Trillian to contact friends using YIM. I finally deleted my Geocities account. Isn't Yahoo going to start charging for search results?

[asheep_uk]

What is this about adverts on Yahoo! IM? Could somebody explain?

[jamble]

Originally posted by CrashedStar
lol - i've never had a major problem with yahoo
have with hotmail! spam allllllllll day long, i've just given up on it

but in saying that i've recently started gettong tons of yahoo im adverts - apparently its not new, but it is to me

cs

I never had any problems in about 3 years of use with yahoo but I guess offering a free service will eventually catch up with them in costs.

Hotmail I've always been spammed on, I send some junk mail there but not much really.

http://www.another.com offer a decent free service and you can have a selection of domains to go after your email name too not sure about POP3 access, I think they do it free.