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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. Sigh. Mindless self-contradiction by mumblestheclown · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    First, he tells us that there's not much of a chance that somebody would use his insecure domestic wi-fi. Then he tells us:

    "And yes, if someone did commit a crime using my network the police might visit, but what better defense is there than the fact that I have an open wireless network?"

    While I am just rolling my eyes at his attempt to amateurly guess at legal consequences, I am in shock as to how he doesn't see the obvious contradiction in his logic. This guy's whole theory of it being unlikely that anybody would steal his wi-fi is completely at odds with his theory that if somebody does actually do so he can just claim it was open and thus 'not him.' Right.