Nevermind. I’m dumm
If you want to rant about Yahoo mail I think this could be a good thread.
I was very ranty when my watch wouldn’t pair. Now I can’t get my car to pair with my phone. First world problems
Well I will take this opportunity to rant! They recently put in storage caps, which I am not pleased about.
I fully realize this is an unhinged rant – the storage costs them money, they do give 20G which is pretty generous and at least more than google does - but darn it, I was used to not having a cap on it!
What about Hotmail, Netzero, and AOL.com?
Stranger
I made a yahoo email account for my then dog 20+ years ago. I dont use it but I do have an old account tied to it so i was required to log in to get a one-time access code the other day. Despite having never(? - at least in many years) sent an email from it & only having one account tied to it there were hundreds of unread emails in there, including about 250+ from late Sept thru early Dec (supposedly) from Kamala’s kampaign, asking begging for money. A quick hovering over the sender name made them appear to be legit but I mass deleted all of them & cut the spam in my inbox about in half. My dog never donated to any political campaign, let alone one of someone who wasn’t a national name when she passed.
“This kind of canine voter apathy is why we have…”
Stranger
…some real dogs in orifice! {<-- no, not a typo}
Email has never been the same after they put in domain addressing. If you couldn’t figure out a path to send mail to someone through ihnp4 or ucbvax, you shouldn’t be sending it.
Kept the spam way down too.
Even that was too far. Email should have begun and ended with the MIT CTSS MAIL
system. Anybody sending a message to * *
gets their access locked down to whatever the equivalent of /dev/null on a IBM 7094 was.
Stranger
Never used CTSS, but my Programming Linguistics class I took freshman year (6.231 IIRC) was on Multics, so I used that, though it was still being developed. Also on PLATO a few years later, but more people used term talk, basically instant messaging in 1975.
This recently revived Pit thread included a lot of ranting about Yahoo Mail.
And as I mentioned it looks like a lot more people will get the chance to experience Yahoo Mail if they want to keep their Comcast email addresses:
Mom got herself an account at Rocket Mail back before it was purchased by Yahoo. Her email address still has a rocketmail.com at the end of it, and to login to her account, she puts her username as (name).rm.
I finally got Yahoo Mail on my phone. It’s got a quirk: every time I open it, my inbox has 6 years worth of emails in it. I go to edit so I can select all of them and delete them. Next time I open it, they’re back. Just a stupid annoyance.
I’ve been trying to login to one of my Yahoo Mail accounts for a day or so. I get as far as entering the email address and getting through the page on which Google asks me to click on the photos of buses or crosswalks or whatever and then I get a message that I need to enter a verification code that’s being sent to my email address; the same one I’m trying to access. How can I know the verification code if I can’t open the mailbox?