Seems to be back now
Yahooooo! says! its! email! is! scrahoooo-ed!
Yahoo! Mail – yes, amazingly it is still a thing – is today taking a break from business as usual norms with the service down for almost the past seven hours. Since circa 9am, the email service has received hundreds of complaints an hour on downdetector.co.uk, with users moaning about persistant "error 15" messages, and others …
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Friday 5th January 2018 23:41 GMT heyrick
Re: Surprised...
I use Yahoo! - saves giving addresses I care about to sites I'm not sure if I can trust. Plus, the disposable account thingy means it is pretty simple to create an address <prefix>-<sitename>@yahoo.co.uk which makes it kind of obvious if the site passes on my information. The origin is right there in the address...
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Friday 5th January 2018 23:53 GMT psychonaut
yahoo - spam box - down? well, whatever....
btyahoo - hahahaha! no, ah haahahahaha! jesus really, for your primary, maybe even business email? oh jesus christ. maybe you even had it printed on your business card or, side of your van? oh ffs
bt's implemntation of o365 - pop access, not even imap, or god forbid exchange...try migrating someone to anything where they need to keep the folders they have made on webmail...
forward emails from old btyahoo account to new - forbidden, by design...bastards...
absolute, total cockery
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Saturday 6th January 2018 11:57 GMT SVV
Awww, c'mon folks
It's old and rickety now andi if it needs a lie down and a nap every now and then or occassionaly forgets to lock the front door, we shoudn't poke fun at it. Especially as it's in its' senior years and will shorty be heading off to the big backup tape archive in the sky after a life working hard to deliver spam for every opportunistic scumbag on the planet.
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Sunday 7th January 2018 13:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
Yahoo was already dead long ago
Got screwed over by two consecutive clueless harridan CEOs.
Carol Bartz killed Geocities.
Marissa Mayer redesigned the Yahoo logo with a hipster touch and hit Yahoo Mail with the ugly stick and the ad hammer.
Both did nothing else that was beneficial to the company.
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Monday 8th January 2018 04:51 GMT Aseries
I have used YAHOO email since at least 1998. I have changed my address at least twice. Since Gmail came on the scene I only use my YAHOO as a dummy for transitory contacts that don't actually matter. I would NEVER actually use it to communicate. My HOTMAIL is similar. I only use it for a Microsoft ID. I have a COMCAST email only because I have to. I don't get why people bother with YAHOO. If I sound like a snob, I apologize.
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Monday 8th January 2018 23:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Many of us signed up for Yahoo Mail since the dialup days
Same as Hotmail (which became a turd after countless 'innovations' by Microsoft).
One of my friends has a Rocketmail account... before it was acquired by Yahoo in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMail
Yahoo Japan is quite autonomous, and its webmail service is more similar to the 'classic' Yahoo mail. If you know Japanese, you can sign up for an account and see for yourself. Even the Yahoo Japan home page portal resembles classic Yahoo.
Good things happen when you're insulated from the madness afflicting the corporate headquarters.