Yahoo! Sucks!

[vakkotaur]

Yahoo says:

Recently, messages sent to you from Yahoo! Groups have been returned to us as undeliverable. As a result, we have temporarily turned off message delivery to this email address.

If you are reading this message, the delivery problem appears to be fixed. To start receiving your groups messages by email again and turn your account back on, please visit:

[link]

So I visit the link and switch things back on. There is an e-mail "bounce history" link and that should show what messages didn't make it and maybe let me find out why they didn't get through. It *should* do that. But instead...

Yahoo says:

Account Status: Normal
Total Bounces: 0
Reactivation Requests Sent: 0

So I get reactivation messages because of bounces, yet no reactivation messages were ever sent and there were no bounces. How zen. This is the sound of one web-juggernaut sucking.

Yahoo seems to be "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I got one of those a while back with similar results. Only after I deleted it did it occur to me that it may have been fraudulent. A phishing attempt, in other words, and bungled enough so that you didn't end up diverted to the intended web page that would have tried to snatch your password and personal details. I've seen some like that before, obvious phishing spam that was so badly done it didn't even work.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

This really was Yahoo and not a phisher, I checked that out. There was at least one message that I know did not get through to me, so there was a real problem somewhere.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

That's been happening to me a lot as well. It's part of why I don't use my Yahoo Mail account as anything but a spamtrap.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I have taken to calling them Yahpoo, which was originally a typo, but, if the shoe fits . . .