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Note: This does not apply to you if you have never logged into and created a user profile at Yahoo! Groups.

If you do not belong to any Yahoo! groups, have a Yahoo! e-mail account or have signed up for anything else at Yahoo! then you may return now. Otherwise, read on to save yourself a deluge of spam from Yahoo! advertisers.

On Thursday, March 28, 2002, Yahoo! Groups set everyone's account to the "Have your advertisers send me mail" option no matter what folks had previously elected as their preference. Because this has gone from an opt-in service to an opt-out one, if you've no desire to surrender your inbox to a deluge of mail (ie. spam) from Yahoo!'s advertisers, you have to tell them that you don't want this mail — if you don't say anything, they will just send it.

Here's how to get yourself back to a non-Yahoo!-spammed state. Please note you're the only one who can make this change; list moderators don't have access to your account, so they can't reset this for you.

1. Go to Yahoo! Groups and sign in. (This link will open in a separate window so you can follow along.)
2. Click on Account Info, up near the top of the page, and verify your password if it asks you to. This will bring up your Yahoo ID card.
3. Click on Edit your marketing preferences., which is about 10 lines down in your Yahoo ID card, under your email address(es).
4. Change all those "Enroll Me" options back to "No".
5. Click the 'Save Changes' button.
6. Click Continue.
7. Click the 'Finished' button.