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Yahoo groups contain many special interest mailing lists, including numerous ones for us scannists. Unfortunately, they also have a tendency to sign you up for a lot of services behind the scenes that you may not want - and it results in spam. It starts innocently enough - 1 or 2 a day - after that, it turns into a flood. And they don't tell you how to turn it off.

As it turns out, the method is hidden somewhat, and it's a little klunky - but actually quite easy, like the famous TV magician said, 'once you know the secret'. This procedure assumes you are logged into the Yahoo groups home page, are a subscriber, and your userid shows up roughly in the top center.

1. Under your Yahoo user ID, click on My Account

2. Supply your password, if prompted

3. This should bring you to a screen labeled Review my Account Information

4. About midway into the Yahoo! ID Card section is a link marked Edit Your Marketing Preferences

5 This will bring you to a series of pages - one has a tab on it that says Marketing Preferences, the other says Subscriptions. (The Alerts page can be ignored). Uncheck the boxes for all offers and options that you don't want and make certain you hit the Save Changes button when you're done (at the bottom of the page). You must perform this same procedure on the Subscriptions page as well.

Is there a catch? Well, yes there are 2, actually...

1. This procedure won't stop any spam that's already in the pipeline on its way to you. Eventually the amount of spam will start to shrink, and should stop altogether in a few days, as it evidently takes time for the new changes to be applied to your account and to catch up with what I would assume to be a bulk emailer routine.

2. If you find this procedure useful, spread it around.