Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch.  The Web portal is finding out the hard way that its Web users detest change--especially to policies concerning bulk e-mail pitches.  [CNET News.com]

Yahoo - Spam This!  Yahoo reset all my.yahoo user preferences to give themselves full spamming rights.  [WebmasterWorld] 

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There's plenty more where those came from... 

Will Cox:  "There may be an inappropriate precedent here, but I know I would appreciate it if the FTC would work from the assumption that nobody should be called unless they ask to be called. This would place the burden on the caller to locate people who want to be called, rather than on those of us who just want to be left alone." 

Intel launches 2.4GHz P4 (next week). Fastest P4 yet [The Register]

This won't hurt, did it? 

Yahoo! Widens Data Sharing Options. In a privacy policy update, the Web portal assumes new rights to share personal information, and will require users to opt-out of marketing mailings. [internetnews.com: Top News]

At the same time it changed its privacy policies, Yahoo! also said it "reset" users' marketing preferences -- meaning that unless they visit the page and unselect its checkboxes, they could begin to receive promotional mailings beginning in May.

Nice!  They're getting away with undoing the users' original preferences, so the users are now opted-in by default (even though they had already previously specified that they don't want to opt-in) and then must do something to opt-out.  Just another case of the BigCo's support of SPAM.  They make their money by constantly playing tricks on their users! 

Gary at "same as it ever was" has installed the simplicity1 theme.  I've subscribed to Gary's weblog, after finding this gem there yesterday... still laughing about it, but then again, I'm easily amused. 

March 2002

 


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