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Nutrimentia
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Unhappy Yahoo mail sucks now too

Today I get this wonderful "Important Message from the Yahoo Server Team"

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Hello,

Important service announcement regarding your POP3 or Mail Forwarding service. Please read on.

Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers.

If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe to our improved package that allows you to:

* Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail.
* Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address!
* Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit.
* Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.*_

Sign up today and SAVE 33%

Subscribe before April 24th and get the first year of service for just $19.99. That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99.

Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address.

Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

For further information, please read our frequently asked questions. Please note that your Yahoo! Delivers settings will not be affected.

*Applies only to email sent through the Yahoo! SMTP servers.

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Yeah, I know it was a free service and you get what you pay for, but dammit, the whole beauty of the yahoo.com address was that you didn't need to sign into a browser to view it. It would download to my Outlook Express application just fine.

And who the hell thinks I am going to $20 a month (for the first year only?) for email service? I get that PLUS internet access from any local ISP! No ads, even!

I swear to god the internet was a good idea until someone tried to make money off of it.

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What do you expect. The mighty USA was founded on making a buck. Although it might be shitty you have to pay, there's always someone that will do it cheaper.

Money gubbing wankers.

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Smug Git
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Re: Yahoo mail sucks now too

quote:
Originally posted by Nutrimentia
And who the hell thinks I am going to $20 a month (for the first year only?) for email service


I think that it said $20 a year, not $20 a month.

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Re: Re: Yahoo mail sucks now too

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I think that it said $20 a year, not $20 a month.



It was late... I had been drinking.... IT'S NOT MY FUCKING FAULT I CAN'T READ DETAILS!!

edit: Had to add that the real funny is that I sent them a bitchy email complaining about this change in service and made the same argument about $20/month. I bet they take me reeeeeeal seriously.

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greenleakynipples
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Registered: Dec 2001
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I'm a Yahoo user, and am enfuriated. They've been sending me spam, and I've been okay with it, in exchange for Pop Access. 5 years with Yahoo... I've been all loyal and shit. Fuck them. I'm using my goddamn university account and I hope Yahoo goes out of business. Bam muthafucka.

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Re: Re: Re: Yahoo mail sucks now too

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It was late... I had been drinking.... IT'S NOT MY FUCKING FAULT I CAN'T READ DETAILS!!




Your PhD thesis should feature these immortal words somewhere in its foreword.

Or perhaps as a subtitle.

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The Wraith
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quote:
Originally posted by Pinecrika
What do you expect. The mighty USA was founded on making a buck. Although it might be shitty you have to pay, there's always someone that will do it cheaper.

Money gubbing wankers.



Your theory might carry some weight in this situation, if Yahoo! was a creation of people whose names aren't "Filo" and "Yang". How many "American Wankers" do you know whose last name is "Yang"?

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[i]"The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
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Additionally...

"The mighty USA was founded on making a buck."

- No it wasn't.

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Nutrimentia
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But those are both American sumo wrestlers!

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