It’s worse than that. I use cox business here and they recently contracted with yahoo to handle all their email hosting for us business customers. Given the penchant for Verizon/yahoo/others to overcomplicate things, make interfaces that aren’t even fully (or moderately) accessible, I won’t use them unless as a last resort. Btw, gmail has been heading down this same path for a few years now but still aren’t nearly as bad.
Btw, what you are seeing is when a company becomes so large that they can ignore the customer base, thinking that said customers won’t have many usable alternatives. They fail to recognize one undeniable fact: the bigger you are, the harder you crumble under pressure. Now, as for cox business, I have already informed corporate that because of their use of yahoo for handling all email services, I have moved any emails I have elsewhere. It’s just not worth the hassle. Thanks for the suggestion of FastMail as an alternative. Will be looking into it. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Email services Dept. > On Mar 25, 2025, at 8:34 AM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > As many you now know Yahoo, who was acquired by Verizon back in 2017 and > has merged with several companies to form a mega-corp has put out a new web > interface which is terrible and caused me to seriously seek out an > alternative to Yahoo. Verizon, famous for terrible customer service, has now > become the business model for Yahoo users. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)> > > Does anyone use an alternative email client and do they like it? I have used > Thunderbird years ago but it allows so much email you have to create filters > to keep Spam out and receive normal email. And yes I will find my username > and password for Proton Mail... > > How do we continue to use Yahoo email without getting slammed by this giant > company? > > thanks, > > Greg > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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