what is Yahoo doing to stop this scam?

Almost everyday e-mails are sent to various net users informing them that Yahoo is giving them $500 prize for their monthly draws. The wiser ones would immediately delete the scam mail but there are some who aren't as wise and would actually follow the steps and click to the link provided to claim payment. Alas, the last part tells the user to pay a $9 more or less for registration or whatever convenient excuse they have. A lot of people had e-mailed Yahoo about this and were told that Yahoo has nothing to do with this scam. It's not Yahoo who sent you that mail. But how did the scammer get hold of your e-mail? Sounds stinky but one thing we need to always remember, net junkies, DELETE when it looks suspicious.

the beauty of links

Out of curiousity, I searched via Google for each of my four blogs to check if the blogs are included in the search engine. The search automatically led me to my blogs along with all those which are linked to them. Beautiful. In fact I was surprised to see my blogs in one blog directory when I do not remember having submitted my urls there. I found out that this became possible simply because one of my links is a member of that site so anyone searching for her blog would also see my blogs' urls.

That is the beauty of having links. Your site automatically crawls along with the site that links to your site and vice versa. Ergo, the more links, the more chances of showing up in search engines like Google and Yahoo.