Bloody annoyed ...at YahooMort

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

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I always try to respond to emails sent to me by members (good manners,
if nothing else), but over the past month of 9 mail responses sent to
Yahoo addresses *8* have  been returned as not delivered. The latest
is constancevigilance. Sorry Susan, I did try but it didn't work.

I have no problems with any other service provider.

Is anyone else having similar experiences?
 
Kneasy
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bboy_mn:

Yahoo, my best guess, is the most massively used service on the
internet, and they have a network of servers spread around the world.
It's theoretically possible that our groups [Photos] folder is on a
server in France, our [Files] folder is on a server in Canada, and our
[Messages] are on some other server. Again, that's more of an
illustration than statement of absolute fact.

Consequently, due to the high volume and distributed nature, this
place we HP lovers affectionately call 'Yahoomort' is occassionally
subject to periods of instability and unreliability. Usually,
occurring when they are doing some type of system-wide upgrade or
other maintenance.

Lately, and given the severe lack of posts recently, I assume this
applies to everyone, Yahoo would not allow me to log-in to any of my
accounts. It simple refused to recongise my password. I tried this on
3 different Yahoo account with the same result.

In addition, Yahoo doesn't do much to investigate complaints. If
someone registers a complaint of any kind, no matter how mild, your
account is closed. I've lost several Yahoo usernames that way, one day
they were just gone; no notice, no explanation, no recourse. That
means email addresses can disappear in the blink of an eye never to be
seen again.

If a particular user has only the on-line version of Yahoo email,
rather than the downloadable POP email, then the storage is limited.
It's possible for high volume users to frequently overflow their
available storage space, which means all incoming email are rejected
until files are deleted and more storage space is available. That same
thing happen to my friends HotMail account, so it's not unique to
Yahoo. In that same vain, if a user does not have the advertising and
marketing preference turned OFF in their Yahoo account, a substantial
portion of the storage space can be eaten up by SPAM. It's odd that
Yahoo both floods your email box with SPAM ,and at the same time,
provides you with SPAM-Guard to block SPAM. 

As, I said above, Yahoo has recently been slightly unstable, so your
'bounced' emails may have been related to this short term problem at
Yahoo. 

Also, Yahoo has recently posted this Service Message at the top of the
Groups Homepage...

"Due to a recent outbreak of viruses on the internet, Groups is
experiencing message delays and will reject certain messages."

Just a few thoughts on the matter.

bboy_mn