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Yahoo Tries to Improve Your Inbox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-get-much-worse dept.

Jamie found a story about Yahoo's plans to improve your inbox by incorporating more information into the sorting. Simple thread order or chronological order ignores tons of information that might be available on social networking websites. That way your friends will be more prominently displayed. Automating this could beat the hell out of a hundred lines of procmail recipes.

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  1. Finally by angus_rg · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they've put in a working spam filter?

    1. Re:Finally by Ngarrang · · Score: 5, Funny

      So they've put in a working spam filter? Whoa! Slow down there, partner! Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First we need to be able to see all of our inbox spam in an orderly fashion before we can begin ignoring it.
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      Bearded Dragon
  2. Why we don't use Yahoo webmail in China by gzipped_tar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yahoo gives your account info to the Communist government. You can do a search (persumably not a Yahoo search) on the fucking web about a case that Yahoo giving the account access and mail contents of a human-right activist to the Party-runned security departments, who later imprisoned him. I'm not feeling like doing the search myself because I don't quite like triggering the Great Firewall this week. I am an Anonymous Coward. (Big-Brother: No you're not.)

    As for Google, if only they could implement mail search with regular expressions and more advanced scripting of mail filters.

    This is offtopic. Please mod this down.

    oops. forgot to check the "post anonymously" box. i'm shot!

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    Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
  3. Grammar correction by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Funny

    "... upgrading to Vista." Grammatical error: Should be "downgrading".