Alec . . . I'll take "I don"t use Yahoo because of Yahoo 's" for a 100 please.
-- Jason Hellenthal Inbox: jhellent...@dataix.net Voice: +1 (616) 953-0176 JJH48-ARIN > On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:36, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > > >> On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alte...@alter3d.ca> wrote: >> >> The issue was studied thoroughly by a committee of MBAs who, after extensive >> thought (read: 19 bottles of scotch), determined that there was money to be >> made. >> >> whatcouldpossiblygowrong? > > Apparently it was implemented by a group of low-bid programmers in a far off > land. > > I have, err, had, a Yahoo! account I used for two things, getting e-mail from > Yahoo! groups and accessing Flickr. I was on Flickr not a two or three > months ago to fix a picture someone noticed was in the wrong album. > > When I saw this I thought I should log in again to reset my one year ticker. > Off to www.yahoo.com and click sign in. > > Enter userid, enter password. > > Drops me to a CAPTCHA screen, that's odd, never seen that before, but ok. > > Enter CAPTCHA and it redirects me to "https://edit.yahoo.com/forgot";, which > when reached from said CAPTCHA screen renders as a 100% blank page. > > That's some fine web coding. > > I went to the flickr site, tried to log in. At least there it tells me my > userid is in the process of being recycled. No option to recover. > > Try creating a new account with the same userid, sorry, it's in use. > > So as far as I can tell: > - The must be inactive for one year is BS, and/or logging into Flickr didn't > count in my case. > - No notifications are sent, so if you're a person who is there for things > like Yahoo groups and forwards your e-mail elsewhere you may be using the > service in a way that generates no logs. > - There is no way to get an account back that is in the recycling phase, > which is frankly stupid. > > As a result Yahoo! has lost a Flickr and Groups member, and I'm not sure I > see any reason to sign up again at this point. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > > >
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