What is Yahoo!'s real position on informing the public about it sandboxing websites?
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Why should it have to inform the public?\n\nThey do this to hundreds if not thousands of sites every day.  Why on earth should they have to "notify the public"?\n\nAnd it is not all Yahoo and small sites.  This week, Google delisted BMW because of deceptive practices that had their sites comming up more often then they should.
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It could be more interesting if the yahoos would stop the violating crap!
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The internet is a public place, first and foremost, you shouldn't be putting up any information that you wouldn't tell any random people. Put differently, imagine that you're in a public place, with a bullhorn. When you post something publicly, on the internet, you're yelling it at the top of your lungs through the bullhorn to whoever can hear you. Here, that means anyone, anywhere with a computer and a connection. Someone who hears you will send you spam... it's just the way things work. You cannot post something publicly and expect only nice, nonspammer people to see it.\n\nSo, you have a couple choices, depending on how sophisticated you want to get: \n\n- Don't post your address. Or post an address you don't care about, so you can pick out the messages you want to see to follow up from your personal address. If you're willing to check through things every day or so, give Mailinator a try... throw away addresses, even if they get spammed, it doesn't matter.\n\n- Implement the opposite direction. Put up a web form that allows people to submit their address to you, store it or output it somewhere private and then either automatically or manually follow up with them later, from your address. The only email address this involves when they hit your page is theirs, and most spambots aren't going to be submitting addresses anywhere.\n\n- Implement an alternative. Put up a web form for people to write messages to you with their email address, and have your backend stick it in a database. You can check the database later.\n\nDo you see the theme here? If you don't want everyone to have your address, don't post it. Give them an alternative way to contact you that they can't spam, or that it doesn't matter if they spam.
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If it's legit, voting for a website may help the website, advertisers, and the voting system know how many people enjoy that website.\n\nFor instance, if a poll is being run by CompuRag - the world famous (fictitious!) computer magazine (which gives out awards every year in their equally famous [fictitious] "Best Of Last Year" issue) you can probably guess that they just want users opinions on which sites they visit, who'se the best, etc...\n\n(Assuming that our fictitious magazine is legit, they may give out an award which the website will proudly present, though the website may also put that award to use by bumping up their advertising charges for the next year - still, worthy, and legit.)\n\nIF, on the other hand, a company like e-Spam (equally fictitious as the earlier mentioned CompuRag) is NOT a legit company (or merely posing as one,) the moment you click on the link, you may be deluged with pop-ups. What's worse, is they may take you to a seemingly-legit polling site, ask you a few questions about the website that you like, then ask for your e-mail address, (Anonymous Indeed!) which they'll use to spam you 'till the cows come home.\n\nOf course, the more awards a website can garner, the better off it is. (The more money they'll receive from SOMEone... either a legit company via click-throughs, {and having an award says "we get x-thousand visitors a day, etc..." means there might be more / better targeted advertising...} or via illegitimate means - both "help" their website.)\n\nSo, if you want to help out your favorite website, go ahead! It's not likely a legit website will resort to pulling a fast one like agreeing to be polled for by a company that wants to sign you up for spam! (Hey! Even if they are, just don't give your e-mail address!) Other than that, turn on your pop-up blocker, click there, and see what happens! If you recognize the pollster, you may well be doing your favorite website a favor!\n\nGood Luck!
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I think that is an excellent idea. Yahoo claims they are against spam mail but I find it interesting hos much of it they generate and allow to be passed along as they do
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It is not a 'spy center', however they did give out information on peoples movements in the internet, meaning that yahoo itself was not made for the purpose of spying on people.\n\nYeah google, ect might be a good idea but it is silly to do\nbecause what can they possible accomplish by just\nknowing what you see/ect    \n\n(with the exception of shopping and stuff)
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I'd be apprehensive going to some "other" sites, especially one that mentions "Warez" and suchlike.\n\nWhy not go direct to YAHOO's site, or 1 of these other reputable ones: http://del.icio.us/Eagle_Kiwi/webbased
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Yahoo getting a cut of everybody who installs it! I ain't got it & don't want it!!!\n\nhttp://www.willyblues.com/
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Clearly Yahoo are slacking.  They are almost a year out of date.  I doubt that many of their IT staff read this site, so if it bothers you the best course of action would be to send in an email.
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the user rooms are being misued like forcing children for sex.\nsome concerned groups sued yahoo for not monitoring........for more information check these articles\n \nhttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=7600&title=Yahoo!%20Closes%20User%20Created%20Chat%20Rooms.\nhttp://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_Shutters_User_Chat_Rooms/1119538447
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You quoted an announcement, and said you "don't like" it, but you haven't said why you don't like it.\n\nEdit...\n\nIf Yahoo! were making money on the service, and saw that that was likely to continue, they would have continued to offer it.  You are free to take your business elsewhere, and pay for those services from someone else.
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Yahoo has created "robots" for some games so that you could play with them. But if they spam, I don't think that they are Yahoo! robots.
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YOU'RE RIGHT, TO A CERTAIN DEGREE!..............\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) - Yahoo and America Online will offer "certified" email service that guarantees credible senders delivery for a fee.\n\nBusinesses that make the grade when it comes to legitimacy and email track records will be assured message delivery to recipients' main Yahoo or AOL inboxes for a quarter of a cent to one cent per message.\n\nGoodmail Services of Mountain View, California, worked for more than two years with AOL and Yahoo on certified email service intended to thwart phishing and other online scams, said Goodmail co-founder Richard Gingras.\n\n"The email inbox has become a dangerous place," Gingras told AFP. "It doesn't say much for our email medium when it is not as reliable or trusted as should be".\n\nCertified email will bypass spam filters and be routed directly into the main inboxes of designated recipients. Yahoo and AOL represent half the primary personal email accounts in the United States, according to Gingras.\n\nGoodmail will handle sender accounts and certify mail, which will get priority handling by AOL and Yahoo. "Postage" revenues will be split evenly between Goodmail and the Internet companies.\n\n"We will be announcing partnerships with other mailbox providers in the coming months," Gingras said. "We thought it was important to start with the big players."\n\nConcerns that personal email users will have to pay for email or that "spammers" could buy their way into inboxes were "absolutely absurd," Gingras said.\n\n"From the outset, this was a very consumer-centric solution," Gingras said. "What we've crafted is a means to allow consumers to feel safe in dealing with commercial messages."\n\nThe American Red Cross has signed on for certified email to distinguish its messages from online imposters using the charity's name to con donations from people, according to Gingras.\n\n"It should be easy for anyone in the world to get an email address at little or no cost without having to show an ID," Gingras said.\n\n"That is also the problem. People can take advantage. It is the classic tragedy of the commons."\n\nEmail is evolving to mirror traditional postal service, which has options ranging from bulk mail to express overnight delivery, Gingras said.\n\nHowever, some were worried that the new service could be imposed on customers.\n\nCommercial email senders must be permitted to decline using certified mail or they are likely to take their business elsewhere, said analyst Laura Koetzle of Forrester Research.\n\n"It's a kind of Mafia tactic because it's a lot like racketeering in order to recoup some of their costs," Koetzle said of the thought that mailbox providers could compel businesses to use certified email.\n\nHowever, Gingras insisted it was not a mandatory service. "Some less enlightened email marketers have shot back and said they don't want to be paying," Gingras said.\n\n"Certified email is an option; if they want to build trust," he said.\n\nYahoo and AOL promised that their standard email services would remain free.\n\n"For years, our top priority has been to protect users from spam and email scams, and to ensure users receive the messages they want and value," Yahoo said in a written release.\n\n"Yahoo is planning to test a new 'certified email' system from Goodmail in the coming months, with the goal of providing additional user protection against spam and phishing scams."\n\nAOL predicted it would implement certified email service within two months.\n\n"FedEx and US Postal provide that in the offline world; it's all about safety and security," AOL said in a written statement.
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The information they handed over was NOT private (as everyone is under the misconception that it was).  People should actually read the Terms of Use Agreement before signing up.  Yahoo! expressly states that they will cooperate with government authorities, including giving them requested information.  For them to have 'fought' would have flown in the face of their clearly stated principles.
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Yahoo didn't sell us out to the government.  A court order is a court order.  Yahoo can only comply to give out the search engine information that they requested. But don't forget, this is happening on all sites and you just need to be cautious on what you search for and how you do it, that's all. \n\nYahoo has a very strict privacy policy and will uphold this when it comes to our personal information.  Department of Justice subpeona was for search engine info only, and that's all they get.
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look at the domain name where the web site is. you can report it to their ISP. \n\nso If the scam is scam.yahoo.com you tell yahoo.
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Sure...and it's a thinly veiled mask of subliminal messages for Yahoo!\n\nYahoo is all about the correlation between slogan recognition and the corporation's economic performance.  \n\nYahoo is hoping that by allowing us to play in here for free, use their 360 service for blogging, etc., we will also use their email service, their search engine, their My Yahoo, etc.  That way they can inundate us with advertising for which they make a tidy profit on.  \n\nIt's pretty much how it goes anymore.