Thanks, Dave, a good Heads Up.
Although I'm not a Yahoo user, I wonder if Yahoo has advised their users of this, and in a way that caught their eye.
I am somewhat surprised that you didn't find a way to tie this to the Patriot Act and the Administration.
Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going. Take a look at their updated privacy statement: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo! Network", you'll see a little "click here" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping. Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice the "Success" message the top the next page. Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will undo the opt-out.
Feel free to forward this to other groups. Notice that you must do this from EACH COMPUTER that you wish this selection to apply to.
-- Dave K.
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