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by Rocktman2 on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 09:48:27 AM PDT

My Yahoo email is the second email service I have & I've probably been using it for 13 years or so. My first email accounts were with Juno when it first started up in the early 90's. I still have my Juno accounts although I no longer use them & would not ever consider using them again. Why? They're spam catchers. For email that hasn't been used in almost 15 years, they get an extraordinary amount of spam (a lot of it from Juno itself). Yahoo's service has gotten horrendous over the past few years. From mail that's delayed for hours to days, to their group product that periodically goes off-line. BTW, both their email & groups were acquired when Yahoo bought Geocities. That's how I have Yahoo mail. Gmail is a far better & more reliable email service than Yahoo is. Gmail is the reason Yahoo offers so much storage now. Yahoo had been steadily reducing the storage limit on new accounts until Gmail came along. How do I know this? I created many Yahoo email accounts to use their free websites so I was able to compare storage limits on my accounts. Yahoo's service on the free websites is as bad or worse than the email now. The websites have a data cap that uses voodoo math. If you have pictures on your website, visitors can't view more than about 2 pages before Yahoo shuts your site down for an hour because you've used up your data allotment. It used to take multiple viewings of the entire website to be shut down. Not anymore. While Yahoo is shooting itself in the foot, I absolutely DON'T want M$ buying it. How long do you think it would be until M$ remade Yahoo over into the image of its other services?


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