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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. Yahoo mail announcement by harmonica · · Score: 5, Informative

    I received the following mail:

    To: MYMAILADDRESS
    Subject: Important Yahoo! Mail Service Announcement
    From: Yahoo! Mail
    Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:00:26 PST

    Hello,

    Important service announcement regarding your POP3 or Mail Forwarding service. Please read on.

    Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers.

    If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe to our improved package that allows you to:

    - Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail.
    - Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address!
    - Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit.
    - Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.*

    Subscribe before April 24th and get the first year of service for just $19.99. That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99. Visit the following link to subscribe:
    http://ordering.yahoo.com/or/ypm/...so me-id

    Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address.

    Sincerely,
    The Yahoo! Mail Team

    For further information, please read our frequently asked questions. Please note that your Yahoo! Delivers settings will not be affected.

    *Applies only to email sent through the Yahoo! SMTP servers.

  2. Re:Reduce spam? by dougmc · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yeah right! Last I checked 95% of the spam I received came from yahoo.com
    Actually, 95% (though I doubt that figure) of your spam CLAIMS to be from yahoo.com. Reading the headers gives a different story ...

    In short, they stick Yahoo with the bounces, and with many of the knee-jerk reactions to the spam.

    I get maybe 40 spams/day. Many of these do have From: addresses from yahoo.com. And less than 1% of those actually came from yahoo.com -- the rest were forged. And the (less than) 1% that did come from Yahoo were people mucking around with the mailing lists, trying to use them for spam.