what gets on my nerves is that yahoo wants your date of birth, sex, and all kinds of other information before signing you up. I don't want yahoo running credit checks or rap sheets or forwarding my info to marketers just to be able to read the list. Not that there is a solution, but did anyone else want to know why they needed that info to transfer an account?
ggiacoppe@aol.com wrote:
what gets on my nerves is that yahoo wants your date of birth, sex, and all
kinds of other information before signing you up. I don't want yahoo running
credit checks or rap sheets or forwarding my info to marketers just to be able
to read the list. Not that there is a solution, but did anyone else want to
know why they needed that info to transfer an account?
I didn't have to transfer from egroups nor did I ever have to give out that
information. Strange.
Anyway, a tip from a friend at the UN. When he's asked for all that
intrusive detail by Yahoo or MS or whoever, he gives his address as Apt ##,
120 E 45 ST, New York along with the UN's Russian service number. He changes
the apartment number each time and notes which service he gave it to. That
way, he gets to see which company doesn't live up to privacy expectations.
If they call "him", they get an answering machine... in a language most
American marketeers cannot understand. 
Gavin
ggiacoppe@aol.com wrote:
what gets on my nerves is that yahoo wants your date of birth, sex, and all kinds of other information before signing you up. I don't want yahoo running credit checks or rap sheets or forwarding my info to marketers just to be able to read the list. Not that there is a solution, but did anyone else want to know why they needed that info to transfer an account?
AFAIK it's for member profiles so other members can look for people to
chat up; IIRC you don't have to give it, and/or can keep it from being
displayed. Of course, who knows what they *really* do with it...
-ED \1/