Well that's cos Yahoo is *ucked - I won't use or recommend their services ever again. I just had my ex g/f crack my yahoo account, because of a weakness in their setup. When you forget a p/w, you can do the secret question routine, and if someone knows you well enough there's a chance that they'll guess it and be able to force a request of p/w. In itself nothing too bad, but when the new p/w is posted on the *ucking webpage (instead of being mailed to a registered account)...then that cracker can easily just change your p/w and log on and do what they want. The result:
All of my emails deleted. Everything. After emailing yahoo, it's basically tough luck, we don't backup and you've lost *all* of your emails permanently. They gave some lame excuse that you can recover your emails if you haven't deleted them from the trash. Well, duh! I've noted out this security flaw to yahoo but they don't give a shit and I cannot recommend them. Sure you guys might say, "why place all of those emails there if they were so important to you?". My answer is I didn't realise how poor Yahoo' security was. If i'd known...oh and forwarding on 5mb of email content manually isn't fun - takes *ucking hours (I should know I did it when I closed my hotmail account and forwarded on all the mails to the said yahoo account). For sure I found out about it all, as yahoo emails you saying that your p/w has been requested to be changed, and tracks the IP address of the requesting person. Easy enough to do a tracert then ;-) So I have enough proof to have her convicted, but sometimes it's just easier to walk away from it all. So all of you using yahoo accounts - CAVEAT EMPTOR Dave W Pastern PS this will most probably be my last post as i'm thinking of unsubscribing and going offline permanently for personal reasons. I'm still giving the matter serious consideration. For all those kind people that helped me with problems, many many thanks. For those that put up with some of my childish posts from time to time, again many thanks. Debian is still the best Linux out there :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
