# A question for other Yahoo! mail users out there **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 25, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-other-yahoo-mail-users-out-there/252129 "2004-06-25T02:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-other-yahoo-mail-users-out-there/252129/1 "2004-06-25T02:32:45Z")
I have been a user of Yahoo!Mail for a long time. Earlier this week, Yahoo made some service changes that have enhanced and expanded the service. I’ve noticed something strange, however. When I use Internet Explorer, none of the buttons (like “Reply”, “Delete”, etc.) work. Additionally, none of the advertisements show up. Instead, I get a message where the ad should be that says “Unable to load page requested”. When I use Netscape, the buttons work fine, but I keep getting pop-up messages from Netscape that say “[ad.doubleclick.net](http://ad.doubleclick.net) could not be loaded” and I have to click “OK” every time. What could be causing this? Do I have some sort of malware that blocks doubleclick’s ads. Could it be interfering with the buttons? Anyone else have this or similar problems? Thanks. Y’all are the greatest! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-other-yahoo-mail-users-out-there/252129/2 "2004-06-25T02:42:30Z")
The problem is at Yahoo’s end. There was some discussion about these issues over at [www.macfixit.com](http://www.macfixit.com) when the problems were happening with Apple’s Safari browser (can’t access the articles now unless you’re a MacFixIt subscriber, which I’m not). The discussions revealed that it wasn’t just Safari, and it wasn’t just Macs - Windows users were reporting similar problems. So just give Yahoo! some time to fix the problems. Most of them have been fixed already, but there are still a few bugs to work out. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-other-yahoo-mail-users-out-there/252129/3 "2004-06-25T02:53:56Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > The problem is at Yahoo’s end. There was some discussion about these issues over at [www.macfixit.com](http://www.macfixit.com) when the problems were happening with Apple’s Safari browser (can’t access the articles now unless you’re a MacFixIt subscriber, which I’m not). The discussions revealed that it wasn’t just Safari, and it wasn’t just Macs - Windows users were reporting similar problems. > > So just give Yahoo! some time to fix the problems. Most of them have been fixed already, but there are still a few bugs to work out. I thought that might be the case, with their big upgrade and all. I seem to remember that there was also a denial of service attack on the same day as their upgrade. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![suezeekay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@suezeekay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suezeekay)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-other-yahoo-mail-users-out-there/252129/4 "2004-06-25T04:17:42Z")
Yeh, I just noticed the problem with “delete” when I accessed my mail about five minutes ago. I’m sure they will get it worked out.