Yah-Choo!


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Yah-choo! Groups

Maybe the pigs are examining every piece of mail sent to Yahoo Groups
(during daytime hours only, of course) because of the upcoming march
on Wash. We sort of doubt it -- we think they're just trying out their
latest spam traps for unwary users and they're working out the kinks. 
In any event, it's clear we can no longer post to Yahoo Groups with
any reliability except between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 a.m. EDT.
They've probably hired some of those ignorant know-nothing
Microsoft-'trained' MCSEs because there are so many out of work and
they come cheap. They should be hiring some experienced unix
engineers instead.

So, we'll stop posting completely to Yah-Whores Groups until they get
their act together, except for the RHC news to the spanish and french
groups, which we send after midnight anyway. It's too difficult to
keep track of what has posted, what's delayed, and what has just
disappeared.

As always, interested readers can find all our news at our own
advertising-free, non-corporate or foundation-funded Blythe Systems
network.

we are also continuing to post much of our material on the excellent
ACTIV-L mailing list run by Rich Winkel, aka on usenet as the
newsgroup misc.activism.progressive.  This university-based mailing
list is unix-based, too.

Following is an item about the Yah-whores' latest Desperation move to
sell their users to spewers of corporate vomit:

You get what you pay for.  But don't feel bad; the advertisers 
are getting a lot less than they've paid for -- no one reads their 
trash or clicks on their jumping jellybeans, and fewer and fewer 
of them are signing contracts with Yahoo. 

[This item was reposted on the Ontario DXers Assn. list on yahoo.
Yahoo is so busy selling everyone's data they can't even keep their
damned services online. Methinks they are doing better selling spam
victims than they are selling advertising...]

YAHOO IS AT IT AGAIN! URGENT: PROTECT YOUR INFO!

Please let everyone you know, know of this right now!

Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track you around
the net & see what you are doing. ...like cookies. [well, sort of,
close enough]

Take a look at
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html

Somewhere about halfway down the page in the right hand side
paragraph, there is a blue tiny little link that lets you opt-out of
their electronic snooping.

I advise everyone to do so immediately if not sooner.

Also note that when you opt out, a window opens that says you have
successfully opted out, but also says that if you want to cancel opt
out to press the small [button] below.

DON'T click the small button thinking that it is the final opt out.
NOT!!!!!

[Just hit "Return to Yahoo Privacy" instead.]


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