[78-L] reunion OT

[Royal Pemberton]

I just did the opt-out.  Thanks for the tip!  I will send Steve's
message to friends I know that are on Yahoo.

About 4 years ago I briefly joined Reunion.com.   Not one of my
brighter doings, but no great harm done, thankfully.  I eventually
deleted my profile from it.  My Yahoo E-mail addy still gets their
E-mails saying one person is looking or has looked for me.  One time I
checked it out, and it was a woman in Florida about 6 years my senior.
 I don't even know anyone in Florida no matter their age AFAIK!

On 1/12/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Ken "Silver Showcase" wrote:
>> Ron Fial wrote:
>>> Be very cautious of reunion.com.  This scumbag site sends this email, and
>>> tell you a friend it searching for you at the reunion.com site.  When you
>>> go there, you must accept a free registration in order to find out who it
>>> is.  When you register, it asks you for your gmail or yahoo password.
>>
>> And that's the BIG RED FLAG!  Why-oh-why would you give any of your
>> passwords to anybody???  CERTAINLY not to any on-line business who asks
>> for them.  Never ever!
>>
>> If you have done that go to your Yahoo account right now and change your
>> password.
>
> While you're there, update your Yahoo tracking..this came to 78-C from Steve
> Ramm the other day but I haven't seen it on other lists.
>
> Yahoo is Tracking Group Members         If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups -
> be
> aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user.
> It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every
> group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo. Look at their
> updated
> privacy statement at http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html
>    About half-way down the page, in the section on *cookies*, you will see a
> link that says *WEB BEACONS*.         Click on the phrase "Web Beacons." On
> the
> page that opens, on the left find a box entitled "Opt-Out."         In that
> section find "opt-out of interest-matched advertising" link that will let
> you
> "opt-out" of their snooping. Click it and then click the opt-out button on
> the
> next page.         Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your
> ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific.
> That
> means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use.
>   Please forward this to your other groups.
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