M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'. I wonder how to go about starting an online 'petition' to Yahoo to "Just say NO! to M$". After all, "it's the _customer_ who is *supposed* to be right!" Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :) Julie @};- --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
On Feb 2, 2008 12:18 PM, Julie <betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
I wonder how to go about starting an online 'petition' to Yahoo to "Just say NO! to M$". After all, "it's the _customer_ who is *supposed* to be right!" Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :)
Julie @};-
What qualifies you as a customer of Yahoo as opposed to merely a consumer? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
--- Julie <betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
Yes, I see now that Unlimited Mail Storage is more of a curse than a blessing.
I wonder how to go about starting an online 'petition' to Yahoo to "Just say NO! to M$". After all, "it's the _customer_ who is *supposed* to be right!" Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :)
The irony about all of this is that Yahoo might take Microsoft's offer for the same reasons that Microsoft is making the offer: competition from Google is causing both of them to lose revenue streams. According to the original news story, even with the market downturns Google stock is still trading at something like $500 a share, compared to both Microsoft and Yahoo trading at below $100 a share each. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Julie <betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
Yes, I see now that Unlimited Mail Storage is more of a curse than a blessing.
Only when someone else holds it hostage, like Yahoo has always done. Unless you pay them $x, you can't download your email. That's why I will never let any company host my email for me.
You can use Ypops to download. -----Original Message----- From: Luke -Jr Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:49 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users On Thursday 07 February 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Julie <betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
Yes, I see now that Unlimited Mail Storage is more of a curse than a blessing.
Only when someone else holds it hostage, like Yahoo has always done. Unless you pay them $x, you can't download your email. That's why I will never let any company host my email for me.
I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office. I download everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running. Better than I could do at home. I also don't mind paying the phone company for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity, etc. Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why? Now if Micro$oft buys them I do object to paying them even one penny even IF they could actually provide a good product. Luke -Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Julie wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
Yes, I see now that Unlimited Mail Storage is more of a curse than a blessing.
Only when someone else holds it hostage, like Yahoo has always done. Unless you pay them $x, you can't download your email. That's why I will never let any company host my email for me. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
I'm pressing the 'm' hotkey in gmail on this thread, before it gets out of hand. On Feb 7, 2008 4:20 PM, James Sissel <jimsissel@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office. I download everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running. Better than I could do at home. I also don't mind paying the phone company for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity, etc. Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
Now if Micro$oft buys them I do object to paying them even one penny even IF they could actually provide a good product.
Luke -Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Julie wrote:
I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'.
Yes, I see now that Unlimited Mail Storage is more of a curse than a blessing.
Only when someone else holds it hostage, like Yahoo has always done. Unless you pay them $x, you can't download your email.
That's why I will never let any company host my email for me. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
_______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
On Thursday 07 February 2008, James Sissel wrote:
I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office. I download everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running. Better than I could do at home. I also don't mind paying the phone company for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity, etc. Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
A better question is WHY spend the money for INCONVENIENCE? Why pay them to receive mail and give it to you every 15 minutes when you could just have the mail be delivered directly to you faster and cheaper?
At 09:07 PM 2/7/2008 -0600, you wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008, James Sissel wrote:
I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office. I download everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running. Better than I could do at home. I also don't mind paying the phone company for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity, etc. Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
A better question is WHY spend the money for INCONVENIENCE? Why pay them to receive mail and give it to you every 15 minutes when you could just have the mail be delivered directly to you faster and cheaper?
Why? Because "while my PC is running" means my PC isn't running all the time. So if email came in while my PC wasn't running it wouldn't get to me. And my power here is often interrupted so much that I've got UPSes on everything. Running an email server here at home would be unreliable.
On Thursday 07 February 2008, James R. Sissel wrote:
At 09:07 PM 2/7/2008 -0600, you wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008, James Sissel wrote:
I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office. I download everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running. Better than I could do at home. I also don't mind paying the phone company for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity, etc. Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
A better question is WHY spend the money for INCONVENIENCE? Why pay them to receive mail and give it to you every 15 minutes when you could just have the mail be delivered directly to you faster and cheaper?
Why? Because "while my PC is running" means my PC isn't running all the time. So if email came in while my PC wasn't running it wouldn't get to me. And my power here is often interrupted so much that I've got UPSes on everything. Running an email server here at home would be unreliable.
Why wouldn't it get to you? The relevant RFCs require relays to attempt at least more than one attempt to deliver. Only spammers do not follow this.
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Luke -Jr