MAY 2006 - YAHOO! Email Boxes

YAHOO EMAIL BOXES

To sign-up for a free Yahoo email box, go to www.yahoo.com and click on the “EMAIL” button on the top of the screen. It’s immediately to the right of the big, red YAHOO! logo.

1. On the right side of the sign-in screen, below the sign-in boxes, click on the “Sign Up” button
2. Begin filling out the required information. Although anything with an asterisk is REQUIRED, it doesn’t mean that you must give your true info. However, WRITE DOWN whatever information you decide to use, so that you will remember it.

3. Choose a Yahoo ID, enter it in the box and click “Check Availability”. If the ID that you pick is already taken, a screen will pop up giving you 3 boxes to enter some ideas and a box to try a new ID. Once you have found an ID, WRITE IT DOWN! It doesn’t matter if you use capital or lower-case letters, your ID is NOT case-sensitive. When you type it in, either style will work.
4. Now continue with a password choice. It must be 6 characters and IT IS CASE SENSITIVE! If you enter it here all in capital letters, you must ALWAYS use capital letters. WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD EXACTLY AS YOU HAVE CHOSEN IT!
5. Yahoo requires some additional information to help if you ever forget your password. Again, this information does not need to be TRUE, but you do need to REMEMBER it. So, write it down.
6. You may fill in the “Customizing Yahoo” section, or leave it alone.
7. Fill in the “Verify Registration” box.
8. It might be a good idea to print out the screen page before you agree to the Yahoo Terms of Service. This is a good way to keep a record of the choices that you made. Hand-write in any information that is not shown on the print-out.
9. Click on “I Agree”. Congratulations! You now have a Yahoo! Email box.

If you do NOT want to receive advertising mail from Yahoo, click on “My Account” on the very top left hand side of the screen, just under the “Welcome…”. A screen will open asking for your password. Fill this in to get to your account information page. Under “Member Information”, click on “Edit your marketing preferences”. UNCHECK all the boxes and click on the “Save Changes” button on the bottom.

For help on using your Yahoo Email box, sign-in to your box and then click on “Mail Tutorials” on the upper right corner of the page. Yahoo provides step-by-step directions for all the features provided with your email box.