OT: The new total email scam from Yahoo...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:32:04 -0500):
[...]
> > Some of the primary supports of CAN-SPAM were Microsoft and Yahoo,
> > large ISPs who wanted to insure that it was legal for them to spem
> > their users.
>
> Yep; they CAN SPAN.  :-)
>
> But as for Yahoomail and the like, I believe the terms of service,
> which no one ever reads, require you to grant them permission to ad-tag
> your messages.
[...]

There's gotta be something wrong with "I hereby grant you permission to
send ads to other people".  I expect free e-mail accounts to require the
person with the free account to see ads, but I don't expect someone else
to be able to give "my" permission to receive them.

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