Digital BW, The Print

My Internet Explorer cookie prefs are "decline" together with "never 
ask", and they don't seem to give me a problem with Yahoo on my Mac. 
I haven't tried "ask for each site" lately.

Sam McCandless                samcc@...


>In view of these new Yahoo problems, I thought I should mention a situation
>with cookies.
>
>I used to set my cookie prefs to "ask for each site". This way I could easily
>decline marketing cookies and accept needed ones (subscriptions, accounts
>etc).
>
>A few months ago, Yahoo changed its behaviour and locked me out of its
>groups unless I set my prefs to "accept all cookies". This was clearly a new
>move on their part as it didn't affect  getting to my account 
>settings or yahoo
>email. Just the groups. IOW, with cookies set to "ask", neither my group
>membership was recognized nor my moderator or owner status.
>
>The moral of the story - besides how aggressive Yahoo has become with its
>marketing practices - is to check your cookie prefs in relation to any changes
>of status to your Yahoo groups.
>
>It's getting weirder....
>
>
>Antonis
>
><and good luck contacting Yahoo about any of this>