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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:09:52 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, casd@myrealbox.com, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: I'm blocking Yahoo!
Message-ID:  <20030225210952.GB20300@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030225210041.GA2703@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20030219022940.GC17256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3E583D9C.9000204@myrealbox.com> <200302240902.50478.wes@softweyr.com> <20030225055735.GD21727@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030225210041.GA2703@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:00:41PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:

> Are you sure you didn't sign up for the "SPAM" message when you created
> some Yahoo! account?

He may have created the account, after which time Yahoo! "decided" that
he wanted spam:

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51461,00.html

# In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its
# users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to
# indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations through
# spam, snail mail and telephone.

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Clearly there are more things in the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * heavens than anyone anticipated. -enp

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