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[winterbadger]

Yahoo are quite the b*stards!

I tried to find out why I'd gotten no mail from any of my lists since noon. Apparently one (1) message had bounced on Sunday (why I have no idea), so Yahoo decided to deactivate all mail to me from my lists as of noon today.

It took one message to reset the account but WTF? One bounce? And what's with it taking a day for them to even process that? They've been having a lot of trouble lately, and so have all sorts of computer systems. Are we quietly reaching the 'all the computers in the world are tired and going to shut down now' point?

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[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Come to gmail.

[winterbadger]

Sadly, the problem is not *my* email. It's the Yahoo list servers. As long as Yahoo is effectively the Internet's one free source of listservers, everyone will use them to host their lists. And Yahoo's preposterous web-bots will keep cutting off people without notice and without reason.

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

You may or may not be interested to know this, but Yahoo also collaborated with the Chinese government, allowing them access to email accounts of people they were investigating, and which led to their impriosonment.

[winterbadger]

Doing whatever the Chinese government wants you to seems to be par for the course for IT companies wanting to do business in the PRC. Google changed its search functions, so sites critical of the Chinese government would not be returned to users in China. Microsoft, Cisco, and Skype have also come under fire for cooperating with the Chinese government.

Of course, a lot of US companies seem to be willing to hand over information to *our* government without warrants.

But what is it that Rick says to Ugarte in 'Casablanca'? 'I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.' There's not much I can do about Yahoo's bad behavior, but if they're going to be evil, couldn't they at least be efficient, too? *sigh*