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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. The email to Yahoo users by NFNNMIDATA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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.*

    Sign up today and SAVE 33%

    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.

    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

  2. The announcement by stud9920 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 11:31, Yahoo! Mail wrote:
    > 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/splash?855&Pkgs=u s:ym:pop&.osig=zQwKT
    >
    > 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.

  3. myrealbox.com by cmstremi · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is a free service (by Novell) that has free mail with web access, POP and IMAP. They do a phenominal job in filtering out spam for you. I think I've seen two spam's slip through since I started using this service several years ago.