On Mon, 7 May 2001 03:00:55 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
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> I do not know how arachne friendly yahoo is these days, since they are
> busy installing bells and whistles. But it is one of the few sites I
> know of what offers free POP3 and SMTP email accounts, in addition to the
> rather annoying web-based variety. My ex-girlfriend has been using their
> pop3/smtp account for over a year, goes quite a volume business (she is
> a political activist) and has not had any significant trouble. I believe
> they even offer an auto-vacation message feature. To get the pop3/smtp
> mail you have to sign up, both for the web-based mail and some kind of
> set of extra features whose name escapes me. However the latter is completely
> free.
Yahoo isn't at all Arachne-friendly. When Egroups sold out to Yahoo I
found that I needed to get a Yahoo ID in order to get into my little
family mailing list that I used to moderate under Egroups. Well, to make a
long story short, they wouldn't give me a Yahoo ID that would work with my
account. So I then sent an email to the Yahoo tech support people to ask
them to remove my mailing list account and they refused to do so.
Recently I heard in the news that Yahoo now sponsors and promotes porn.
People who do that are the same kind of scum who also sponsor and promote
spam. For that reason I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Yahoo
mail.
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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