In a message dated 1/31/01 2:20:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ggiacoppe@aol.com writes:
<< 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? >>
Yahoo is a for-profit company and wants to create a "profile" of its viewers
for marketing purposes, i.e. to sell space on your screen to advertisers. I
could be wrong, but that is my guess.
Ed Taborek