Yahoo unsucessfully attempting to lock away adult groups even fur ther

From: Brendon Lieschke <9300514_at_ucol.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:33:08 +1300

> welp im just doing a little self plugging
> aparentally somone has created a Fan group for me
> (well mostly for Sara)
>
> but im just inviting everyone to come on by
>
> http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sara69

I went to follow this link that was kindly provided on the Skunkworks group,
entered in my password so I was signed into Yahoo, then all of a sudden have
been faces with a new page saying that to even take a look at this group
(being of an adult nature) I need to enter a credit card number that proves
my age. Which virtually cuts off anyone without a credit card from joining
any new groups. Including anyone new wanting to join the ones that we're on
already...

Luckily I can still get into the ones I am a member of normally without this
coming up, but at this rate I doubt that any new adult groups are going to
take off and grow like the Skunkworks did - which will probably not get any
bigger due to this.

Even luckier, is the fact that any of us can bypass this entirely, thanks to
the addresses that Yahoo adds to the bottom of at least the X-Toon-Cuties
posts...

> To subscribe to this group, send an email to:
> X-Toon-Cuties-subscribe_at_egroups.com
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> X-Toon-Cuties-unsubscribe_at_egroups.com

Just replace the X-Toon-Cuties with the name of the new adult group such as
of the one above, send off the message and you can bypass Yahoo's annoying
adult-check without a worry...

So in this case to subscribe the address to send a message to is then:
Sara69-subscribe_at_egroups.com

We don't want anyone to not be able to join groups like these just because
they don't have a credit card, do we? I'm just hopeing that they don't
notice and lock out this loophole too... :P

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