This got picked up by Slashdot and seriously misinterpreted. The notice I received was very poorly worded but since I have Verizon and was using the "Yahoo email" I was able to parse it. Nothing nefarious is going on.
Here's what's happening. Verizon had a deal with Yahoo that allowed Verizon users to keep their "@verizon.net" email addresses but use Yahoo's email servers. You could log into Yahoo with "[email protected]" and get your verizon.net email through Yahoo's webmail interface. In fact, logging into Verizon's portal just redirects to Yahoo. In addition, your POP server was "incoming.yahoo.verizon.net" instead of the normal Verizon server. Fairpoint is not continuing this deal with Yahoo so now to access your new "@myfairpoint.net" email through a web browser you'll have to go to Fairpoint's web portal instead of Yahoo's and have to use Fairpoint's POP servers. If you have an "@yahoo.com" email address nothing is changing as far as I can tell. Bob Colquhoun On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 00:40, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Kevin Thorley wrote: > >> I have Comcast, so this shouldn't affect me, but does anyone on the >> list use Verizon for internet access? This looks kinda scary: >> >> http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20081227/NEWS01/812270314 >> > I have Verizon DSL, because I won't touch Comcast with a ten-foot > pole, but I don't actually use any of the Verizon services. I have real > servers where the services are under my control elsewhere; I don't need > anything from Verizon/Fairpoint but a pipe. As long as Fairpoint doesn't > start blocking my traffic, I'm good. > > - -- John Campbell > [email protected] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJVxFiPu/PJk2ePZ0RAsFBAJ9S21+dF9NMbDwaWExhyoBkEQ9rNQCdFGcT > P23l8JTBgWVAFiLE5mxX5t0= > =Ro7c > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
