ADMIN: Privacy issues

[borg3892000 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26430

This is just ducky.

So any response we have made to these polls is now freely available 
to Yahoo for any purpose they want.

I can't find anything in the polls help that describes how to unvote. 
Deleting my user account might do it though.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tandy, Heidi" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
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