posted on April 24, 2002 10:24:15 AM new
I use outlook express and have used it for my Yahoo email address for ages.
Now they want us to pay $19.95 for the priveledge of downloading our email into outlook express.
But I beg to differ.........I think I am doing THEM the favor by downloading my email OFF THEIR SERVERS.
Most emails I save for a long time. Newsletters I joined usually have 20k-40k email letter 60k if it is heavy graphics laden.
All emails having to do with auctions I save until I know that my customer has recieved the product.
Spam instantly downloaded and DELETED once again..........OFF THEIR SERVERS !!!
I find this a cheesy exploitation for something not worth $19.95
I mean really for $19.95 who wants to pay for YAHOO EMAIL!!
Now navigation and ease of use it beats the hell out of hotmail any day of the year.
As much of an inconvenience it will be to me and my regular customers I'll end up changing my account settings and shift it all to one of the emails from one of my many domain names but still........Yahoo mail was good while it was free. But still not worth $19.95 a year for something as simple as email forwarding or pop3 access.
posted on April 24, 2002 11:23:26 AM new
I would agree with you. Yahoo is too delete happy when it comes to their customer base. I do not trust them. Never a warning or anything.
posted on April 24, 2002 05:57:15 PM new
Yahoo will never, ever delete you from their email count total. You could burn down their corporate headquarters and they'd leave your account on file. That's how they got the 179 million users total they boast of so often. The auction is the opposite.
When a Yahoo email account mailbox is filled or not visited in 30 or 60 days they inactivate the account. They are offering several optional email payment schemes now. Here's a kicker though, if you have an old Yahoo email account that you want or need to re-activate they will charge you $19.95 or it stays an inactive account ( ransom? ) There must be over 100 million inactive Yahoo email accounts out there.
posted on April 24, 2002 09:21:23 PM new
Lets be clear on this one. If you use regular Yahoo e-mail, it is still free. They are only charging for the POP3 access for outlook or simular e-mail reading programs. It makes sense to me to be charged for the extras. It costs them extra so they should pass on the costs. I personally never had much luck with the outlook programs anyway. Found using Yahoo e-mail right from the web to be very user friendly anyway.
posted on April 24, 2002 09:32:37 PM new
Actually it cost them extra now that everyone will be filling up their servers with stored messaged and a build of of unread and yet undeleted spam.
I used >---0---< of my 6 megs of space since I dowloaded all my messages daily.
Now they can hold onto 6 megs of messages and spam times however many hundreds of thousands of people who won't pay and leave their messages on Yahoo's servers.
Who wants to log into a web based email many times a day when a simple click on outlook express will have your messages downloaded with no log-outs for inactivity.
posted on April 24, 2002 10:01:51 PM new
Memory storage costs are getting cheaper all the time. I think they make some money sellng your email address to advertisers. If the acounts are not accesed after X number of days they lock up the account. I would guess there are not that many actual accounts that are active. Most people open an account and get a site registration letter or whatever other reason they opened the account for then forget all about the account. A disposable and free solution to registering for web stuff.
That's how they got the 179 million users total they boast of so often. The auction is the opposite.