CLASS CHAT LISTS

(Rev. 31 Mar. 2002)

Each graduating class has it's own free electronic chat list for use by its members. Not all lists are active because we restrict access to classmates, and someone from each class is in a better position to do that than are we. A list of classes needing moderators is located at the bottom of this screen.

We also have several administrative lists, which ease:

Current and Former Reunion Planners from Yorktown, O'Connell, and W-L communicating with each other to share tips & seek answers
Current Reunion Committees communicating easily amongst themselves without imposing on their classmates as they work on planning reunions
YHS staffers (current and retired) correspondence

We realize that everyone has friends from YHS from other classes, and hope to provide a master email eddressbook, searchable by class, and name, by the middle of 2002. It will be located behind our firewall for members only.

Until then, click here to go to our active class chat lists. You'll be prompted for a current ID and password which is automatically provided to those that pay by credit card, and by email for those paying my check. If you didn't receive this information, please email admin@yorktownalums.org.

If you would like to help with this project, please let us know by dropping an email to admin@yorktownalum.org. Thanks!

LISTS NEEDING MODERATOR(S)

The following class lists have been established but are currently inactive awaiting a volunteer moderator(s):

YHS66
YHS68
YHS69
YHS70
YHS73
YHS79
YHS83
YHS84
YHS85
YHS89
YHS94
YHS95
YHS97
YHS98
YHS03
YHS04
YHS05

Interested in serving as your class moderator? Contact us for details.

Important Yahoo Information!

(Rev. Mar 31, 2002)

It has come to our attention that yahoo.com has changed two important policies. If you have a yahoo account or forward yahoo email to another system read on. At present we don't believe anyone without a yahoo email account is affected.

Change in Marketing Settings

One of the yahoo Terms of Use you agreed to when you created a account with yahoo.com was that they could change their Terms of Use in the future.

They seem to have exercised that right and changed the settings regarding marketing on many accounts to permit selling contact information to third parties who in turn may send you unsolicited commercial correspondence by email or post.

Here's how to check to see if your settings were changed, and change them if they were:

Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
Click on Account Info (upper right)
Log in with your Yahoo account/password
In mid-page, click on "Edit your marketing preferences"
Check out whether the settings authorizing commercial solicitations of various types are set to "YES". This includes email settings and US Mail and by telephone.
Change the settings back to "No" unless you want unsolicited commercial information of the nature indicated.
Be sure to click on the SAVE CHANGES box at bottom to save the changes.
We recommend going reloading your browser and checking the settings after saving to confirm that any change made are saved. (If you don't know how to reload your browser, close the internet, and restart your computer, any webpages left in the temporary cache will be deleted.

If you AUTOMATICALLY forward mail from your yahoo account to another account, take note:

Yahoo! Delivers is an option you can activate on your personal Yahoo! email account. It only has to do with mail you, as an individual, receive at your @yahoo.com address from any source. Yahoo! currently allows someone to forward it to another address or to download it with their email program for free ... starting April 24, users will have a yearly charge for that service.

Until there is official word to the contrary ...

- Yahoo! Mail web mail itself remains free.

- Yahoo! Groups remains free.

When you send a message to a group, even if you did it with the "Forward" button, it is not "forwarded mail" ... that is when mail addressed to one mailbox is automatically sent on to another mailbox. And that is what Yahoo! Mail is charging for.

"Yahoo! currently allows someone to set it up so that Yahoo! AUTOMATICALLY forwards ( their incoming mail) to another address ..."

This has nothing to do with mail that YOU click a Send button to mail. Or anything you wrote by clicking the "Forward" button. That is NOT mail forwarding.

This use of the word "forwarded" in this instance is about incoming mail AUTOMATICALLY being relayed to another email address.

Of course, if you WANT to get their advertisers' stuff you can say "Yes" as you please.