Sorry about the slightly off-topic post, but I wanted to reply to concerns
about participation in Yahoo groups resulting in SPAM in one's mailbox.
I currently belong to 14 Yahoo groups, but only have traffic from 2 of them
coming into my mailbox. When Yahoo activated their "Marketing Preferences"
profile a year or so ago, I was alerted to their default profile setting that
allowed Yahoo send a wide variety of email to my address, so I made sure my
profile denied all 13 of those options.
Like most of you, however, I was still getting 20-50 SPAM messages a day, and
it seemed to be getting worse.
On Saturday, I disabled my ARRL email address on the ARRL member web site.
Within hours, SPAM ceased and I have received NO additional SPAM since then.
If you've got an ARRL "email alias", there might be merit in shutting it off.
73 to all
de Mike, K9UW
Amherst, WI
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