Answers that might get me banned

Question
why do u have to wait a year to donate blood if you got a new tattoo?

You are:
Alex K
Your Answer:
The one year waiting period is a hold over from the early days of the AIDS scares. There was a lot of doubt about how long it took for HIV to show up in the blood stream, and the tests were far more primitive than they are now. As a result, a one year waiting period was instituted in the hope that any blood detected by a dirty tattoo needle would be caught by the tests that existed at the time.

Men who engaged in sex with another man after 1977 are still banned for life.


Question
How to get recipe out there and selling?

I have a great, unique recipe that many love and I want to be able to sell them. Basically, whether it's selling the recipe, starting a business, selling the recipe to a new business, I don't know how to start.

I've read many different tips on the internet about patenting things and attornies, but what should I do? I don't know where to start.
You are:
Alex K
Your Answer:
No one buys a single recipe. You need to write a cook book and sell that. Check out a book called "How to write a cook book" from your library. It's an obvious title but the book gets good reviews.

By the way, you copyright a recipe, you don't patent it.

In which I ask a food question

I've asked a new question:

Question:
Teff free Injera (Ethiopian bread) Recipe?

I want to make the spongy bread served as an edible plate in Ethiopian restaurants. The problem is, all the recipes I can find on-line require Teff, and Ethiopian grain that I can't find in the area.
Does anyone know of a good Injera recipe that doesn't require Teff?


I wonder how many people will mindlessly post "Look in a cook book" as a reply.

Updates on Old Friends

Out of curiosity, I checked out some of the old Yahoo Answers Accounts to see what, if anything, had happened to them since I last logged in.

Account001 bulkhater:
Still banned from Yahoo Answers, the mailbox contained nine spam messages and a lone myspace notice that a myspace account I forgot I had was about to be deleted due to inactivity. I tried reporting the Spam messages, but got a slew of errors for my trouble.

Account002 bulkhater01:
Still banned from Yahoo Answers, the mailbox contained the following e-mail:

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:31:30 -0700
To: "Anon Annoyed"
Subject: Yahoo! Answers (KMM58596866V28286L0KM)
From: "Yahoo! Answers" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert


Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Answers.

We appreciate your inquiry. Yahoo! may, in appropriate circumstances
and
in its sole discretion, remove or edit any content and/or terminate the

accounts of users who appear to have violated the Terms and Conditions.

Any action taken is confidential. We will not release this information
unless required to do so by law or under other similar circumstances.
We
are unable to make exceptions to this rule.

We invite you to visit the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Yahoo! Community

Guidelines. These documents can be found at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines.php

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Answers.

Regards,

Nick

Yahoo! Customer Care

40451616

For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit:

http://help.yahoo.com/

Original Message Follows:
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WHY
WAS
I
SUSPENDED?????

What did I do?????

Account003 lagon.dupri:

Still banned, the mailbox contained...

Well, I wasn't sure at first as I got the error message:

Sorry for the inconvenience.

You've stumbled upon a temporary problem we're having with Yahoo! Mail. Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing. In fact it may be taken care of now.

Once I did get in I found one lonely e-mail from Yahoo Support:

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:13:51 -0700
To: "Lagon Dupri"
Subject: Yahoo! Answers (KMM58572206V9182L0KM)
From: "Yahoo! Answers" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert


Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Answers.

We appreciate your inquiry about your suspension from Yahoo! Answers
and/or the deactivation of your Yahoo! ID. We reviewed your case, and
decided that your account is not eligible for reinstatement.

Once an account is disabled for a violation of the Terms of Service,
the
subscriber to the account will lose the ability to log in and access
the
account and its contents (including email and content stored with any
other Yahoo! service). The account also will not be reactivated.

Should you choose to create a new Yahoo! account, we invite you to read

the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Yahoo! Community Guidelines to help
ensure your new account is not deactivated.

Yahoo! Terms of Service:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Yahoo! Community Guidelines:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines.php

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Answers.

Regards,

Evan

Yahoo! Customer Care

40532437

For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit:

http://help.yahoo.com/




Original Message Follows:
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What did I write to get suspended?

Why was my account suspended? What did I do that violated the terms of

service?
I answered two questions. Was this political? Did one of my answers
offend someone's political beliefs?

Account 004 revealed!

Since Account 004 has survived this long, I've decided to publish all the posts about the account. The "Account 004" category on this BLOG should now have a few new entries covering the last few months.

Responding to Yahoo Answers Spam

Please note, I didn't bother trying to link to the "Site" that the poster was asking about. It was a pretty obvious sham URL, and probably a hack attempt. I did test the URL Links, which is how I learned the information in my response.

I wonder how long it will take Yahoo to delete the original question, if at all.

Q: I need this search https://199.38.49.76/servlets/...
it keep tryin to get to this site and it keep send me a error teel me hoe con i get around this.

A: First of all, the link is probably an attempt to steal data from you. While it's an IP address, it's t trying to use the certificate for west.com.

Second, the error is that you aren't authorized to view the page. You need a login that will let you load the content at the URL.

You need to get in touch with the folks who run 199.38.49.76 and sign up for an account. It's also possible that their server has a configuration problem that prevents it from serving the object to people on the Internet.