Is Yahoo Answer linked to Yahoo Mail ?

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In Mail, choose Options (near the top right, above the inbox). One of the first choices will be to "enable connections relatged features"......UNTICK that, then save the page. That should get rid of the whole updates thing.

Also in your Answers Profile, if you do an Edit My Profile, you can turn off updates as well. That way current contacts don't get notified every time you answer a question. They will still be notified if you ask one, if that's the option you tick.

The updates only give away current stuff, not the old stuff you did, even off this account. Of course, you might have email contacts who never knew you were on Answers, who would find out from this update thing. So it's best not to have the updates turned on. That is only for the kind of people who like to Twitter every time they eat an apple or brush their teeth. Just leave it turned off, and your contacts can look up for themselves what you've been answering, if and when it suits them.