How Can I add yahoo Messenger contacts into my Yahoo mail contacts?

In Yahoo! Mail, how to stop the pop-up requests from other users asking to be added to your Yahoo! IM contacts?

• When signing in to Yahoo! Mail, the first thing that hits me is a pop-up box from some person requesting me to add them to my Contact List over Yahoo! Instant Messenger. Rarely are any of these people, individuals that I know. You can deny that request, but then there is another request right behind it, popping up to ask the same thing. You decline it, but then another pops up. AND THEN ANOTHER! (ad nauseum) These is typically phishing scams or other dealings I care not to engage in when I sign in to my Yahoo! Mail account. Being bombarded with these requests is one thing when signed up PUBLICLY over Yahoo! Instant Messenger. But in Yahoo! Mail? It is intrusive and uncalled for. Has Yahoo! automatically linked all of their Yahoo! Mail accounts to their Yahoo! Instant Messenger accounts with the same name, such that people over Yahoo! IM who don't know you can come and bother you in your Yahoo! Mail Inbox to add them as Contacts with no introduction or knowledge of who they are or what they want? Where is the switch to turn off this link between Yahoo! Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Mail, if it exists? The bombarbment of requests to be added, combined with the piling on of more banner advertising by Yahoo! on their Yahoo! Mail Inbox screen has made the Yahoo! Mail product almost unusable, it is so cluttered now and tedious to have to answer to all these pop-up, unsolicited requests to be added as a contact. Have you noticed this? Does it bother you too? Is Yahoo! paying attention or making adjustments to keep their email product still user friendly versus a bigger and bigger haven for scammers / phishers / etc.? What is the account setting adjustment to make to cut out these pop-up IM Contact Addition requests? Or in an effort to drive more Yahoo! Mail customers to their premium / paid emal product, do they not allow one to UNLINK their Yahoo! Mail from their Yahoo! Instant Messenger account -- UNLESS -- one purchases the premium Yahoo! Mail product? In other words, would Yahoo! stoop so low as to make what was a good product now BAD, BOTHERSOME, and TEDIOUS in an effort to drive you to their premium product so you must cough up more cash to do what was previously a basic thing?

• Answer:

  just to right of your name at top left of mail page you will see a tiny arrow..click on it and on drop down click on "sign out of chat"