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Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No'
rawg writes "Looks like Yahoo is resetting their 'Marketing Preferences' again. In an email I received from Yahoo today it states, 'Starting January 1, 2004, Yahoo! will begin to send you messages, via email or postal mail, about our own products and services. You can control the types of messages you receive by visiting your Marketing Preferences at any time'. It also states, 'And, as always, you can delete your Yahoo! account altogether at any time, for any reason, by going to the deletion page.' I deleted my Yahoo account a month ago. I guess they are lying, because I'm still getting their SPAM."
After 15 years of marriage I am well aware of "No means No" !
Amusingly enough, though, SpamAssassin filtered it out and it ended up in my spam folder.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
Yahoo ignores my preference to not get spammed by them, I ignore all software EULA's that I click through... I think it's a fair trade... :)
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
Internet portal Yahoo may want to think about changing its advertising slogan from "Do You Yahoo?" to "You DO Yahoo."
More like "Yahoo DO You."
'Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes, aaarrrrrrrr!' -- Minsc
I'm going back to using the telegraph and smoke signals.
Are you _sure_ you pressed the hidden "I'm sure" button?
no really we KNOW you want to say yes, wait you said no??? huh I cant here you it sounded like yes. whats that? you said no you would love to have our spa.. er I mean emails sent to you well you asked for it....
"Slashdot, where telling the truth is overrated but lying is insightful."
Then we kill the marketers.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Probably because they're still a big, faceless corp. I think we all feel a little bitter towards BFCs, because somewhere in the back of our minds, we know we're getting screwed.
girl that everybody liked. But she told you "No" and you wondered if "No" really meant "Yes" afterall.
But her parents had to call your parents to clarify that "No" really meant "No" for really positive for sure.
It's like that.
Maybe it was just me.....
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Whats even better is set your addresses (home and work) to yahoo's addresses.
Home Address:
106 Front Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5A 1E1
Canada
416-341-8605
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
United States
408-349-3300
Putting linux on a girl's computer without her consent is a bad rap for the open source movement. Educate her, yes, but forcing her to switch after she said no is bad karma.
Wait... we're talking about linux, right?
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
There are a lot of things that mean "No" in a marriage...
10. "No,"
9. "Maybe,"
8. "I have a headache,"
7. "It's that time of the month,"
6. "It's your turn to change diapers,"
5. "My mother's coming to the house tomorrow,"
4. "Did you take out the trash?,"
3. "I just want to cuddle,"
2. "Could you give me a backrub?,"
1. "Yeah, that's what we need, another kid,"
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
I got that email Wednesday... completely forgot about it! Anyway, this is what they just told me after changing my marketing prefs:
"Thank you, your changes have been saved. Please allow approximately 5 days for this change to take effect."
That must be a very slow database they use....
At the end of the email they sent me, it read:
:-)
"... This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo!. This email was sent to ___@xxx.xxx for the Yahoo! ID ___. If this ID doesn't belong to you, click here."
So I clicked on the link provided and they now think they have the wrong person and will never bother me again.
-- Boycott Shell
Good thing I live in Springfield, New Jersey.
Personally, I always use horror movie villians for website registration. Although I can't help but worry that maybe Freddy Krueger wouldn't have killed all those people if he wasn't getting all my SPAM and junk mail