Yahoo Mail! - Are you f'n kidding me?

Slow Play Ray · #1 10-02-2005, 06:01 AM

So I email that link of the rabbit humping the cat to my girlfriend from my Yahoo account, hit send, and a "character string verification" pops up - you know, like the ones when you sign up for an email or buy tickets from Ticketmaster. Of course the characters are all f'd up, and I thought the "e" was an "o" and it took me two tries to send the email.

So now you apparently have to do one of these EVERY TIME you send a Yahoo email. I did a couple experiments - with and without links, with and without subjects, even replying to an email from my inbox, and I had to do one of these for each email sent "to help fight spam."

I can't believe how stupid this is. Guess it's finally time to send out that "please use my gmail address for all further correspondence" email.

F'n Yahoo.

Piiop · #2 10-02-2005, 06:04 AM

It doesn't make me do this.

Slow Play Ray · #3 10-02-2005, 06:05 AM

Have you sent an email today? This just started literally 10 minutes ago - it's made me do it for every email since.

Piiop · #4 10-02-2005, 06:06 AM

Yeah, I just tried one after reading your post.

Slow Play Ray · #5 10-02-2005, 06:11 AM

Well then, apparently Yahoo just hates me:

private joker · #6 10-02-2005, 06:12 AM

Why does anyone use Yahoo mail? Gmail and even Hotmail are way superior. So is Thunderbird. Yahoo Mail sucks.

ghostface · #7 10-02-2005, 06:13 AM

What is Yahoo?

Slow Play Ray · #8 10-02-2005, 06:16 AM

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Why does anyone use Yahoo mail? Gmail and even Hotmail are way superior. So is Thunderbird. Yahoo Mail sucks.

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I knew this question was coming, and I have a simple answer: laziness.

I never understood why everyone says it sucks - it always sends and receives emails flawlessly and I can access it from anywhere - so what more do I need? Anyway, I have a gmail account, but everyone and everything has always been linked to my Yahoo account. It did the trick, so I had no reason to change. Now I have a reason, and will put forth the effort to switch everything over.

frostbrn · #9 10-02-2005, 06:55 AM

Yes, Yahoo hates you. I just sent a few yahoo emails and no character verification for any of them

Slow Play Ray · #10 10-02-2005, 07:14 AM

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Yes, Yahoo hates you. I just sent a few yahoo emails and no character verification for any of them

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