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Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services
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.
Haha, I'd sooner pay for a slashdot subscription.
Pay not to see adverts ? That'll never take off. ... err. oh dear.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but three
I have an idea for the slashdot editors and their zany paying-not-to-see-ads scheme. Why not randomly post large pictures of Mr. Goatse.cx? I would pay to not see that.
Post your email address to a usenet group then tell me the same story.
Fuck I get like 20 emails [from the same ISP in korea] a day. About buy some shitty sweaters and what have not.
The only reason I use my yahoo account is for the time being it gets slightly less spam than my hotmail one.
I honestly and whole heartedly believe spammers should just be shot. No fines or jail, just bring em out in the street and shoot them. They are a leech on what is good in the world and honestly don't deserve to live.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
As any asshole can see from my email address, I'm a huge fucking fan of MyRealBox. Yeah, the name is faggoty, but I'm quite fucking taken by the service. IMAP, SSL wrapped, nearly Spam free, and tech support that is absolutely tits. I've been using them for about a year now, and have zero complaints. I don't suspect that they'll charge for it, because they use the myrealbox shit as a test bed for all their fucking NIMS stuff.
But enough of this handjob bullshit. It's a good service, and that's all I'm going to fucking say.
Don't be fucking shy about profanity. Just fucking spill it.
Here's a bit of insight: people don't like to have to pay for shit that they previously got for free, with the near promise of future freeness. A certian website comes to mind with regards to this.
But about the DSL: Good fucking luck. You'll never be able to find a provider with decent service that doesn't asshole port 25.
The only people who still use that addres are my wife's grandparents, and they just send me pictures of people with their penises caught in shower doors.
I would appreciate it if you would ask your grandparents to stop emailing that picture of me.
Yeah I got this mail too, but the best part was that it was delivered to my Yahoo! Bulk Mail folder... So even they classify their own mail as Spam :)
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer