[HPforGrownups] YahooGroups changeover - Y! ID vs Email Name

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10961

Jeralyn wrote:

> On Sat, 27 January 2001, John Walton wrote:
> 
>> Amanda Lewanski wrote:
>> 
>>> As for the changeover, will our emails to the group start showing our Yahoo
>>> names as the sender? In other words, will you start seeing stuff from
>>> "mandolabar" rather than "Amanda Lewanski"?
>>> 
>>> --Amanda
>> 
>> ::shrug:: Who knows? I've asked that question to the World Class Yahoo
>> Service Desk ("buttock-clenchingly poor" is a class, right?), but they
>> haven't got back to me yet. We'll keep you posted :)
> 
> Hi all - 
> 
> I've done a test and noticed that my yahoo ID only shows up on my home page.
> Whenver I send messages, whether from my email addres or the website, you'll
> see the same old email address that you've come to know and love.  (Well,
> *some* of you love me...)<vbg>

On reflection, my guess is that, for reasons of server resources, we will
continue to see the self-designated names (John Walton rather than
johnwalton_crazyivan). It would be quite a server-consuming task for Yahoo
to go through every email address (bearing in mind that you can have five
separate alternative email addresses for one account) and replace it with
the Yahoo ID. This is, however, just a guess.

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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