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Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-address-to-block dept.

NetSerf2000 writes: "I just saw an article on the Register that Yahoo is giving users of it's email service until the 24th of April to make a decision about forking out $19.99 for the first year. Yahoo states that this is so it can 'improve' service quality and 'reduce" spam.' The report says that it's the mailing forwarding and POP3 services, so I'm not sure that it affects the Webmail service; if it reduces the spam coming out of Yahoo!, that'd be one less domain I have to filter into "Spam," which would be nice.

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  1. Reduce spam? by MoThugz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah right! Last I checked 95% of the spam I received came from yahoo.com

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    Welley Corporation - SLM Scammers
  2. They can eat me by ahamos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What an absolute pain in the booty. First Yahoo killed my Geocities account (which I could get through POP3 from the dawn of time), and now they take away my free POP3 access. Sure, cool, kill spammers and all, but they are the ones who are willing to pay the $20. Not me. No sirree. Looks like it's time to set up that Exchange server and register an MX record at dyndns.org... F**kers.

  3. You F***ing Whiners! by derch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My god, all you people bitching about $20 a year. If you are on this site of "News for Nerds", then you should fit one of these categories:

    1) *nix Geek.
    2) Nerdy college person (student/grad student/prof/admin)
    3) Admin at a business
    4) Connected indivual (you have "friends")
    5) Other Miscellaneous "I understand computers, then internet, and have a clue"

    You are probably employed somehow. If you can afford $10 a month for the simplest dial-up ISP account, you can afford $20 a YEAR. If you can afford a six pack of coke/beer every few days, you can afford $20 a YEAR.

    Better yet, buy a domain ($15/year) from a registrar that offers free email forwarding. Forward the domain's mail to your ISP account.

    If you're on DSL/Cable, set up your own mail server.

    Don't f***ing depend on Yahoo! for your free POP3 account then bitch when they ask you to pay so they can pay the bandwidth and the mail admins and the sys admins.

    My god, all you invalids. I'm so sick of you. Where do I permantly disable user comments and stupid punk ass whiny "Why do things cost money" stories!