Yahoo mail . . . . unbelieveable!!!

I have had no problems with yahoo but firefox sucks up 250+mb of my limited memory.

Yahoo mail here in Ontario Canada has been flakey in the past 6 months. Hangs up, chokes off and at times is extremely slow. If I were in business it would not be with Yahoo. I would pay for a product or service...but I am just a retired old man having fun.

But, that being said it is not so slow that I will invest the time to switch.
I have way too many yahoo ID's to map them all out. When I get bored I sign on as a political figure and poke fun at other political figureheads and their broken promises. Can't go into detail on this site! lol

Hey, works for me.

I use Yahoo web mail.. I have had one failure in the last 2 weeks and I am not willing to blame Yahoo for that.. In fact I have had one failure in the last two MONTHS and I think only 2 this year to date.

What happens is the backside club (Think of another name of your rear facing exhaust port,, or if you like waste gate #2) likes to do Denial of Service attacks bothering as many millions as possible.. And Yahoo Mail, G-Mail and Hot-Mail are popular targets.

Rumor has it that the govrnment has this giant system out in Utah (I think) called PRISIM that records ALL internet traffic... I can not attest to weather or not this is fact but... Well... Patroit act does authorize such a construct.

My Question is this: Why does the Government not use this system to track down these cyber-terrorists who do this kind of thing,, And scammers, and hackers and spammrs who cost this country well over a billion dollars a year and charge them with felony MDOP, Theft and Scamming and hand them a fine = to the annual cost of their, and their companions annual damage/take (Over a billion dollars) and use the money thus collected to pay for their incaration (till they pay) and to reduce the national debt?

Several answers.. one possibly one is the rumors are false.. The rest, I am afraid, are political but frankly "Rumor is false" makes the most sense.

bwanshoom wrote:

strollin wrote:

More To See wrote:
And what's really nice about those free email services is that they strip everything out of your emails of any use to them and try to turn a profit with it.

I'll just pay 50 bucks a year to be with a paid service and hope that maybe perhaps I have some slight privacy in my email.

I don't have a clue what somebody could or would strip out of my emails that would be of any use to them.

If the free service does this, what would make you think a paid service wouldn't? Sounds like a great conspiracy theory to me.

Not a conspiracy theory at all. Companies mine data on users for the purposes of advertising. There are plenty of products and services offered for free on the Internet and if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product.

+1

With most free services, you're not the customer. Try calling them to get help and see where it gets you. With free email services they mine your data to sell advertising, etc. and it's no secret.

Your paid for email provider will not do this as your the customer. The business models and TOS are quite different.

Have had Yahoo email for 10 years with no problems.

Both DW and I have had gradually increasing trouble with Yahoo! Definitely much worse in the last year. I switched from their webmail to a real email client now that they allow POP3. Their fake "emails" at the top of my inbox and junk flashing on the side of the page was annoying.

I have gmail accounts but I don't use them for anything important as I believe they are the most aggressive at data mining.

murphysranch wrote:
I use Chrome as my browser and then Yahoo as my email - for years. The only prob I've had with Yahoo is that their spam filter has become lazy the last week or so. Otherwise no issues here.

X2 - including the mention of the 'loose' spam filter.

strollin wrote:

More To See wrote:
And what's really nice about those free email services is that they strip everything out of your emails of any use to them and try to turn a profit with it.

I'll just pay 50 bucks a year to be with a paid service and hope that maybe perhaps I have some slight privacy in my email.

I don't have a clue what somebody could or would strip out of my emails that would be of any use to them.

If the free service does this, what would make you think a paid service wouldn't? Sounds like a great conspiracy theory to me.

Not a conspiracy theory at all. Companies mine data on users for the purposes of advertising. There are plenty of products and services offered for free on the Internet and if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product.

More To See wrote:
And what's really nice about those free email services is that they strip everything out of your emails of any use to them and try to turn a profit with it.

I'll just pay 50 bucks a year to be with a paid service and hope that maybe perhaps I have some slight privacy in my email.

I don't have a clue what somebody could or would strip out of my emails that would be of any use to them.

If the free service does this, what would make you think a paid service wouldn't? Sounds like a great conspiracy theory to me.

I use Chrome as my browser and then Yahoo as my email - for years. The only prob I've had with Yahoo is that their spam filter has become lazy the last week or so. Otherwise no issues here.