Simon,
I do have hotmail....what I was talking about is Yahoo specific....when you set up preferences when signing up, they ask is it ok to mail all kinds of junk to your E mail (not the notifications of postings) and so one checks no thank you very much.....fine then if you go back in and check intermittently all of a sudden ever thing is checked yes send me all the junk from Yahoo and whoever else you want to give my E to. So you uncheck everything and keep checking now and again and one day, it's all checked yes again.

Yahoo just admitted not to long ago also about imbedding spyware in one's computer when one signs up for their things.

Bottom line for me is I think Yahoo is a bunch of bottom feeders.
Terry