This fore sure makes sence, and most likely we will never see this problem end. One could wonder if in future, even the ads will be pop:ed or speciall ads for the extension.
One could also offcourse get Yahoo Pro, but that sorta kills the free email idea. But then again, they can't be sure with web mail (mail site) either, FireFox got some fine extensions to block ads. This whould bring us back to square one. Theres is another thing tho, I know that Hotmail demands that you go Pro for pop to email client use. Webmail bypasses that. Sorta like to use something on game to avoid having to pay for it. So once again where do this put us? Sure hope they find the final clue soon, I happen to like Webmail and Thunderbird, but I also like working mail, and it feels silly to have a mailprogram and still read mail on websites. Micke On 25 Feb, 19:13, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't say that webmail extensions are actually illegal as such. It > may be that accessing your mail in a way that avoids viewing the > advertisements on the web site contradicts the contract between you and > Yahoo that you enter into when you sign up for free web mail. Yahoo > provides the email service,and allows you to use a web browser to access > that service, the web mail extensions emulate the actions of a browser > in as much as the extension, in effect,goes to the Yahoo site like a > browser, reads the mail and converts it into a POP stream that > Thunderbird can receive just like mail from any other POP server. So on > this basis, all you are doing is using a particular type of web browser > to read your mail,nothing wrong with that. > Having said that, Yahoo's interests would not be best served if the > majority of Yahoo mail users used the web mail extensions or similar > programs. Who would buy advertising space on Yahoo's mail pages if they > knew that very few humans would actually read the ads? Yahoo have no > reason to encourage or support the use of programs that allow users to > read their mail in this way and every reason to try to prevent it, by > technical means if necessary and there is no legal way of preventing > this use. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Yahoo deliberately break > the web mail extensions (this applies to Hotmail as well), but they > certainly don't care if updates to their site break the extensions. In > fact they would see this as a bonus side effect of any changes to their > web pages. > > > > Wottan wrote: > > Hummm > > > After all these times with not beeing able to retrive mail, one can't > > help it, but one do wonder. > > > Game companys changes thiere protection to avoid elegal copys. > > We change ouer codes on a regular basis to avoid theft. > > All over protection is uppgraded and changed for protection. > > > Yahoo and more keep changing all the time for.......? > > > Well I can help it, but I see a red thread here. > > > I can't any longer buy the info that Yahoo is under development, > > it more looks like they work there butts of to look Webmail out. > > > Micke > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
