previously said... >I don't consider it a flaw at all. Yahoo was one of the best free >pop mail providers, and I have probably tried every provider >listed in emailaddresses.com (IIRC). Yahoo has since done away >with the free pop, so I have reduced my account to sucking email >alerts (like the Debian Security adivsory or the Marssociety >newsletter) via the fetchyahoo script. > >Yahoo's fine as a fallback account or as an address I'd hand out >to people I don't know too well. If they turned out to be >relentless spammers, I could always sign up for a new >account: no questions asked. Try that with your ISP.
Not a flaw? I certainly consider it a flaw. People knock Microsoft products for their security flaws, but hotmail is a lot more secure than yahoo. My p/w was changed on a regularly basis, was a secure p/w (using another, very rare language - no internet dictionaries available for this language that I know of). I couldn't change my secret question - there is no where on the yahoo email page for you to change it - how *ucked is that? I can change it on hotmail... Of course hotmail is *ucked for spam...yahoo is much much much better. Yahoo has a larger storage size, with associated webpage capability and also photo storage (hey i'm a photographer...) As a temporary mail storage yahoo is good, if you do NOT have irreplaceable information stored there. I should have (and could have) forwarded on each and every email to my private mail account (I actually live with my ISP so there :P) and then do an archive email to store them offline onto CD...I wish I had now to some extent but I can't change the past. Anyways...those considering using yahoo mail be careful - it is NOT secure. Dave W Pastern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
