# How does Yahoo! Mail stay around? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911 "2014-10-10T00:52:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/21 "2014-10-10T12:31:35Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > And for what it’s worth, using a Yahoo account as your resume email just makes you look antiquated and silly. As someone who interviews people for tech positions, no it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/22 "2014-10-10T12:43:22Z")
Candidates please send your résumés to [SeXXyBongLuvr6969@yahoo.com](mailto:SeXXyBongLuvr6969@yahoo.com). ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/23 "2014-10-10T12:49:32Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > As someone who interviews people for tech positions, no it doesn’t. I actually just created a new alias with [Outlook.com](http://Outlook.com) using my full name. Outlook is cool, right? RIGHT??? Think I’ll go ahead and delete Yahoo soon. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/24 "2014-10-10T13:15:48Z")
I have to maintain my Yahoo account because my homeowners and auto insurer (I’m in Good Hands!) is incapable of changing my email address. I get a tiny fraction reduced off my premium by getting all notices, bills and copies of policies by email and Yahoo was the address I was using back then. It’s become a personal challenge to see how many creative ways I can tell them to use my “real” address. It a game they refuse to play, so I periodically need to go into the account, get insurance info and de-junkify the remainder. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/25 "2014-10-10T13:23:49Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > And for what it’s worth, using a Yahoo account as your resume email just makes you look antiquated and silly. I agree. That’s why do all my job search communications through Tinder. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/26 "2014-10-10T13:41:00Z")
When I used Yahoo mail frequently at Internet cafes in the 1990’s I experienced problems that _might_ be related to OP’s. When I used cut-and-paste to copy a mail message for saving (the Yahoo interface had no other easy way), Windows would often crash! (I think this happened on more than one machine.) :smack: I did not experience similar problems with other websites. I knew that Yahoo mail kept complicated Javascripts or such running in the background: either they were buggy or the combined activity provoked a Windows kernel that was already unstable (due to malware?) [Slightly humorous anecdote about “yahoo mail being unprofessional”] I needed to make a trivial business contact with someone, but his underling told me the guy discarded all messages from yahoo.mail or hotmail unread. :smack: But there were dozens of other Off\_the\_wall\_Free\_Web\_mails, so I simply used one of those – [muchomail.com](http://muchomail.com), IIRC – good enough for the purpose, though it soon went out of business. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/27 "2014-10-10T13:53:51Z")
Wouldn’t something like gmail be worse for resume use and cold communicating? It seems all spam I see is something@gmail . Maybe this is good for another thread. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/28 "2014-10-10T16:24:23Z")
If you’re applying somewhere run by hipsters, it might be advantageous to have an @aol.com or @webtv.net email address, just to be ironic. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/29 "2014-10-10T16:26:05Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > My primary account has been on Yahoo for 15 years. It still seems to work fine for me. There are occasional glitches but not that often. I also use GMail and it has about the same reliability. I can count on one hand the number of times Gmail has glitched out on me in the 7+ years I’ve been using it. Yahoo seems to give me a problem at least a couple times a month. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/30 "2014-10-10T16:41:43Z")
No problems with Yahoo Mail, though I just use it as my “throwaway” account to give me email to people I don’t want to bother me. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/31 "2014-10-10T17:04:03Z")
I just can’t access my Yahoo! mail at work anymore, even though the company firewall allows it. At home, I can get it about two-thirds of the time. The spam that won’t go away threatens to drown out the good emails. I’m about ready to abandon it for my gmail account, but I’ve had Yahoo! for more than 15 years, and more things than I can readily remember are tied to it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/32 "2014-10-10T17:27:34Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > I can count on one hand the number of times Gmail has glitched out on me in the 7+ years I’ve been using it. > > Yahoo seems to give me a problem at least a couple times a month. I only check mail from my iPhone if I can help it, and my Yahoo mail account is the only one that has intermittent problems. Like random password errors when I try to send or receive mail, which clear up on their own when it suddenly starts working again. And a lot of emails from others that say “this message has no content” until I close and reopen the Mail app, and then they’re fine. Gmail, Hotmail, work POP accounts— none of them do this. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/33 "2014-10-10T18:10:00Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I agree it sucks, but it would be a hassle to switch especially since Yahoo charges for POP3 access so you can get your mail out of their system. Yahoo stopped charging for POP3 and forwarding about a year ago. They also have free IMAP access as well, but for some reason they don’t publicize that. I’ve been using Yahoo for ages and have found it quite reliable, but lately two major annoyances have me thinking seriously about bailing: (1) The calendar reminders haven’t been working for me. I almost missed an important bill payment yesterday because I didn’t get the reminder email. (2) Recently they added a keyboard shortcut, Shift-I, that opens an instant messaging window. Now I’ve got that stupid IM thing popping up unexpectedly when I meant to type the letter “I” in an email. This is driving me INSANE, and there’s evidently no way to turn off the shortcut. AAUGH. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/34 "2014-10-10T18:33:56Z")
Have barely had any problems with Yahoo mail since I got an email address there 15 years ago. Certainly nothing has given me trouble lately. I use both web and android app versions, and I use it as my primary mail account for professional and private. No complaints. No desire to move to Gmail. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/35 "2014-10-10T19:14:03Z")
I actually prefer Yahoo email because I think it looks nicer. Just my opinion. But I do agree that having it on a resume seems outdated, so I have a gmail account for that. ---
**Author:** ![Recusant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Recusant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recusant)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/36 "2014-10-10T19:17:51Z")
My main objection to Yahoo! was that it didn’t sound as cool as RocketMail, but I got over that. Haven’t had any real problems since, and that was in '97. And while it may make me seem “antiquated”, I question how silly it can come across when the main free email provider is a company that can’t even spell its own name correctly. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/37 "2014-10-10T19:41:24Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > I actually just created a new alias with [Outlook.com](http://Outlook.com) using my full name. > > Outlook is cool, right? RIGHT??? > > Think I’ll go ahead and delete Yahoo soon. A few years ago Microsoft wanted to revive their image and rolled out outlook. I was stoked. I was able to jump in the first day and get first.lastname. That’s now my main address. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/38 "2014-10-10T20:34:19Z")
I have a Yahoo! account that I very rarely use. I decided to check in on it yesterday. Egad, what a slow, horrible awkward mess. I would click and wait and wait. Click and wait and wait. When you aren’t as good as Hotmail, You’re Doing It Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/39 "2014-10-10T20:46:32Z")
> [@Recusant](#): > > My main objection to Yahoo! was that it didn’t sound as cool as RocketMail, but I got over that. Haven’t had any real problems since, and that was in '97. > > And while it may make me seem “antiquated”, I question how silly it can come across when the main free email provider is a company that can’t even spell its own name correctly. Funny that you mention that. When Google first appeared back in 1998, I remember thinking, “Clever name, but why’d they misspell it?” Now you’d be hard pressed to find people who know that “googol” was a word before Google. I’ve never quite understood this thing about how you should use Gmail on a resume because it makes you seem smarter and computer-savvy. Anyone with half a brain can set up a Gmail account in two minutes. If the email gets there, who cares how it got there? Throwing out a resume because it has a Yahoo address would be like refusing to hire someone because they arrived at the interview in a Chevy instead of a Toyota. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911/40 "2014-10-10T20:58:25Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > I’ve never quite understood this thing about how you should use Gmail on a resume because it makes you seem smarter and computer-savvy. Anyone with half a brain can set up a Gmail account in two minutes. If the email gets there, who cares how it got there? Throwing out a resume because it has a Yahoo address would be like refusing to hire someone because they arrived at the interview in a Chevy instead of a Toyota. I’d never throw out a resume based on their email address. Even if it was Hotmail or Juno 😃 It just makes a certain kind of first impression, fairly or not, of someone who’s afraid of change and puts up with inferior stuff because it’s easier. A very, very small deal in the grand scheme of things, and likely forgotten as soon as they start talking. It was just a throwaway comment, and I apologize for making it seem like a big deal. It’s really not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-yahoo-mail-stay-around/700911.md?page=3)