[lace-chat] joining up Yahoo

2004-09-05 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
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?

[lace-chat] joining up Yahoo

2004-09-05 Thread Jean Nathan
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

Re: [lace-chat] joining up Yahoo

2004-09-05 Thread Avital
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

[lace-chat] Joining up Yahoo

2004-09-05 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
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