Thank you for posting this. You know the old saying, "misery loves company". This fact should apply additional pressure to Yahoo to fix the problem for 'everybody' including me. I will cite this material to Yahoo, hopefully to shame them into claiming that I 'abused' my email account. (They STILL haven't explained what the nature of the 'abuse' was.)
'Somebody' needs to solve the 'password problem'. Others (but not me) may be strongly tempted to re-use the same password in many sites. I always thought that was foolish to the highest degree: It would powerfully motivate people to set up 'honey-pot' websites, if for no other purpose that to collect passwords, figuring (correctly, unfortunately) that a large segment of society would re-use passwords. Maybe this is already a well-discussed matter, and I understand that a partial solution includes the use of fingerprint readers, rings, and possibly retina-scans. Jim Bell On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:00 PM, manning bill <[email protected]> wrote: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/yahoo-detects-mass-hack-attempt-on-yahoo-mail-resets-all-affected-passwords/ its not just jim... /bill Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. On 30January2014Thursday, at 15:19, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote: > >> (Raising the question: Is there a reasonably straightforward mechanism >> to allow a disgusted user to (easily and automatically) transfer all of >> his emails from one system to another? Obviously, email service >> providers are motivated to try to lock in users, but maybe there's a way >> to fight this.) > > > IMAP. > > I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account: > > Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com > Port: 993 > Username: [email protected] > SSL/TLS > > > Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account. > > > > > >
