I learned about the privacy change from someone on IRC, not Slashdot. I changed my settings back, and then went out and got a new free email account from elsewhere. I then emailed everyone I knew and informed them of my new address.
More than one of the new mail services I checked out at this time had text up warning users to "please be patient" due to the "massive numbers of former Yahoo users" flooding their servers.
Just because we didn't delete our Yahoo account doesn't mean we kept using it. If they want to side with the spammers against me, then fine - they can spend their bandwidth receiving a bunch of messages they have to store on their own drives - on an account that hasn't been logged into since. Sometimes, you reap what you sow.
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With a name like "HomesAtCodwellBanker", I would imagine they ARE a "Fat old pedophile support group".
Who says users did nothing?
I learned about the privacy change from someone on IRC, not Slashdot. I changed my settings back, and then went out and got a new free email account from elsewhere. I then emailed everyone I knew and informed them of my new address.
More than one of the new mail services I checked out at this time had text up warning users to "please be patient" due to the "massive numbers of former Yahoo users" flooding their servers.
Just because we didn't delete our Yahoo account doesn't mean we kept using it. If they want to side with the spammers against me, then fine - they can spend their bandwidth receiving a bunch of messages they have to store on their own drives - on an account that hasn't been logged into since. Sometimes, you reap what you sow.