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Attention Technocrats...I must admit that I am technologically impaired...and so need some help. I have an old Yahoo address that has become the mother of all spam. I get about one or two personal messages a day and about thirty to fifty spam messages. So, I want to close the account...I've notified my contacts and told them to use another address starting today. So, how do I "dump" this old account? All help and suggestions for help are welcome!
I'm guessing that you repeat the sign-up process explaining the change with your updated info. This might also give you the opportunity to update a picture if you want.
If you're changing the address you have on file with MLHH here, of course, let Oren know the new one. Other than that, just go to this link for information from Yahoo:
Dear Mr. BeachBum,
THANK THE GODS that someone else has brought this up!
YoooHooo sucks! They first entice potential subscribers
w/ their lurid claims of that ONE word everyone seems
to fall for, "FREE", and, after several months, ya get
the same exact problem that YOU illustrated, "mother of
all spam" didja say?
Not only that, I recently wasn't even able to open my
inbox. Not good, not good at all. I would log on and go
to the inbox, but, weirdly enough, even though the icons,
banner ads, and similar visual screen essentials (reeead: clutter) would come up, the mail wouldn't reveal itself.
Anway, thanks for bringing this up. It was a sore issue.
And thanks Bill, really, for disclosing HOW to delete one's
account there. I just did.
No WONDER that Google shares just went up thirty per cent
more and are rising, leaving its owner now over one billion
dollars richer! Too bad I'm not a stock jockey!
NE CEDE MALIS!
(Yield not unto adversity!)
Quenyan
I would add to the comments already made that there are
bots that search the internet for e-mail addresses to harvest.
The best way to avoid it is 1. never never ever respond to
a spam message. Don't follow the direction on removing your
name. Respodning only gets you elevated to the nest level
and gets you more spam. 2. If you can don't give out your
email address. 3. if you msut give out your email address
you shoud mudge the address (i.e. NickKnigntonFKNO SPAM@gmail.com) So if someone wants to respond all they
have to do is remove no spam.
Also some ISPs will label spam and/or completely filter them
out. If they label them as spam you can set up a filter to
route them to a spam folder which you can scan and delete the
messages unopened.
As always make sure your firewall is up and running,
your antivirus program is up to date and running,
and you have a couple of spyware (adware) programs
updated and running.
Of course we won't have to worry about spam much longer.
Bill Gates promises to eradicate spame by the end of
2007. (And if you believe that i've got a bridge at
Gillette Stadium to sell you.)