[lace-chat] joining up Yahoo
I am very wary of joining up to things on the Internet, so I thought I would enquire of some of you about joining up to Yahoo! They mention an 'Account - but is this a free service? (The word account makes me see bills arriving!) I presume they are safe. Does anyone have any advice for me? They have e cards which members can access, and it might be fun to send some! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] joining up Yahoo
DH belongs to four Yahoo groups, so has an account, which is free. For unknown reasons, he keeps getting messages to him bounced. He knows this has happened because he gets no messages instead of the usual 40, 60 or so, and and a while later he gets an email from Yahoo saying he's been bouncing and he needs to reactivate. It's happened three times this week alone, and he's getting very fed up with it. I don't belong to any because people on those he belongs to send out emails with all sorts of backgrounds, picture attachments, music and any other bells and whistles they can include, which gets on my nerves. Makes some of the emails nearly a megabyte in size just to say Hi. I email for the message content not for anything else. He had yet another message from Yahoo this morning saying he needed to reactivate because he'd been bouncing. When he checked the message ID number that they said had caused his suspension, he found that the group hadn't yet reached that message number. So either they're deliberating lying and taking people as fools, or there's something seriously wrong with their groups system. One suggestion is that Yahoo wants to charge for groups, so if they mess up the free ones people will be willing to pay to have a proper service. I think not. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] joining up Yahoo
Jean, most of these problems sound like they're a result of the Yahoo groups he belongs to. It's true that some send enormous files (if the moderator has configured the list so that attachments are allowed) and that some accounts will get start bouncing. Liz, I've had my free Yahoo account for years and been satisfied with it. I use it as my throwaway address, to keep spam off my regular account and as the address that appears on my Web site. You mentioned the greetings. There is a caveat--in the past all the greetings were free for Yahoo users. Now you have to make sure that the greeting card actually says Free. If it doesn't say free, then you can sign up for a 30-day trial membership with AmericanGreetings.com. The yearly membership costs $13, so I don't bother subscribing to that. You still get a reasonable choice of free greetings to send but not nearly as many as when they were all free. Other pluses of the Yahoo membership are an on-line calendar (reminds me to make backups at the end of every month or to defrost meet on Wednesday), backups of all my bookmarks, and RSS feed from my favourite blogs. There are some blogs I like to follow but I don't have time to click to each one every few days to see if there have been changes. With the RSS feed, I can add the blogs to my My Yahoo page and see instantly what's changed, all on one page. If I were to travel a lot I'd use my Yahoo account more, because you can access it from any computer connected to the Internet. So far I haven't had any problems with the Yahoo account. The basic account with 100M storage is free. Yahoo accounts do tend to get spammed, but 95% of the spam goes into the bulk mail folder, which is automatically deleted every month or so, so I never see it. Avital Jean wrote: DH belongs to four Yahoo groups, so has an account, which is free. For unknown reasons, he keeps getting messages to him bounced. He knows this has happened because he gets no messages instead of the usual 40, 60 or so, and and a while later he gets an email from Yahoo saying heapos;s been bouncing and To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Joining up Yahoo
Thank you all for the advice. We will have a good think about it before we decide, but it sounds like a good idea to get some of the spam diverted!! - as long as I don't get a double dose - by getting the same spam to both addresses!!! I am getting a lot of porn spam at the moment. I wish folks would find something better to do with their time than annoy others! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where it is a glorious day today - though we may get some rain later on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
