You can only see this once you've signed up and clicked "Options" but here is where it says what you have been looking for:
Mail Delivery Status
Yahoo! Mail gives you even more flexibility with two free features! As a Yahoo! Delivers member (you asked to receive special offers via Yahoo! Mail when you registered with us), you can take advantage of email forwarding and POP access. Each one is free, exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members.
Of course, I could have typed this myself, but I'm so lazy I'm surprised I've even made this many posts on this topic.
You're right about the link, cei. It just means you can have Yahoo POP your other accounts.
But you really can POP free Aussie Yahoo accounts.
Yeah, I just took my own advice and read the link again myself. But I did not lie when I said I signed up for a free Aussie Yahoo account and pulled down mail from it with my POP client.
Gunzour, you are right. Yahoo is honoring the preferences users have set, but only those preferences that have been set *since* March 22, 2002, when Yahoo set all users' single "NO" preference to a bunch of "YES"s.
I think slashdot folks already got worked up about that "injustice" a year and a half ago.
The only thing new here to get worked up about is Yahoo's notice that says in effect:
"Remember when we told you a year and a half ago that we were going to send you spam, even though we may have promised not to, unless you go to our web site and click a bunch of radio buttons?"
"Well, even though we could have been spamming the hell out of you this whole time, we haven't spammed you as much as we intend to."
So, starting new year's day, we're going to send you all the crap we could have been sending you anyway, but didn't."
"Anyway, if you want to miss out on that spew once our mainsleaze spam department *really* goes to town, you can still click a bunch of radio buttons and we won't send it to you after all."
Whether having to click a bunch of radio buttons a year and a half ago after already going to the considerable time and expense of clicking a single button six years before that is an "injustice" or not is a matter of personal judgement.
Personally, I LOVE to get worked up about things. So, even though it's been 19 months since Yahoo broke their solemn bond, I am *enaraged* anew at having to be reminded that I had to endure this "injustice" in return for the dubious utility the receipt of seven years of free e-mail service has given me.
Yes, can't we just blackhole everything that emanates from Utah?
It wouldn't hurt if Utah was physically cordoned-off either.
Sure, it might inconvenience some people--Utah being so near to the United Sates and all--but I don't think this is an unreasonable action to take.
After all, Utah is the source of mostly awful things: Rosanne, The Osmonds, all that horrid salt, and now SCO.
And as for how the software works, it would be interesting to know just what OS the power company computers were running. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist (well, ok, that's exactly what I'm trying to sound like;) ) as soon as there were variants on the Blaster worm, a large section of the power went out? Hhhmmm...
All of the workstations where I work (a small California municipal electric utility district) and the Oracle 8 servers used for power trading and load projection run win2k (Disclaimer: I'm a finance guy. I don't work in IT or electric resources).
The SCADA systems and Oracle Apps run on HPUX servers.
I remember an internal e-mail a year or two back warning us not to open a (worm-infested) ms word document that was circulating around and had already taken down the whole electrical quality control monitoring network for the western states (this is a statistical oversight system not likely to cause a blackout).
Regarding info on operating systems and grid maps being helpful to terrorists; that info is all over the place, and has been for years. As far as knowledge about how to take down the system goes, probably the best source would be ask someone in the army of anonymous H1-B workers we have running around these places.
Besides, you don't need a freaking map to see the grid. Ever notice those big-ass transmission towers criss-crossing this land or ours? It don't take no E.E. to figure out that taking a few of them out or switching a few of those lines around is bound to cause some mischief.
I *was* going to spend the weekend on dslreports.com forums getting advice about getting my sbc-yahoo connection up to with 25% of the vendor's guarnateed speed. But alas, dslreports.com is down because broadbandreports.com has been/.ed. Citizens of PA, this Californian feels your pain (Hi to all my friends from the "Bee's Hive" in Shrewsbury).
The old lineman's handsets I, uh encountered, all had little spikes in their alligator clips, so all it took was two well aimed stabs through the insulation, and you had dial tone.
Maybe those spikey 'gator clips are still available.
Slashdot Mirror
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: The deal on laptop batteries and my shaver's but not yours http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: Not your shaver that is Yahoo! Messenger:
[kid]@sbcglobal.net has signed back in
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: Do you think this really goes on? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/03/18 28205&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: I think it is BS. Check your e-mail.
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: ok
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: this can't be happening
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: Hey, how do you set default browsers and other internet applications in Panther?
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: mmmm nope
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: Ah ha! You do it in Safari. And you can set default mail client in Mail.
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: ooo
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: cool
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: you fed the dog, right?
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: ya
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: do you mind if I copy this stuff for a /. post? I'll munge our IDs.
[kid]@sbcglobal.net: sure thang
Mail Delivery Status
Yahoo! Mail gives you even more flexibility with two free features! As a Yahoo! Delivers member (you asked to receive special offers via Yahoo! Mail when you registered with us), you can take advantage of email forwarding and POP access. Each one is free, exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members.
Of course, I could have typed this myself, but I'm so lazy I'm surprised I've even made this many posts on this topic.
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You're right about the link, cei. It just means you can have Yahoo POP your other accounts.
But you really can POP free Aussie Yahoo accounts.
Yeah, I just took my own advice and read the link again myself. But I did not lie when I said I signed up for a free Aussie Yahoo account and pulled down mail from it with my POP client.
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It really means you can use a POP3 mail reader to pull down your (Australian) Yahoo mail. I did that today -- from a brand new free Yahoo account.
Of course you can also have Yahoo POP your other accounts, as you pointed out.
Honest, mail.yahoo.au.com actually provides free POP mail accounts just like U.S. Yahoo used to.
I just signed up for it today and have POPed my new free Yahoo e-mail account using Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
Aussie Yahoo even provides SMTP, but my mail clients only accomodate a single SMTP server so I haven't tried it out.
Read the link again. If you want a free Yahoo POP account, you can still do it at mail.yahoo.com.au.
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here and click Learn More
You may have to sign out from Yahoo first.
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I just finished signing up - web access/pop/smtp or mail forwarding - no charge at yahoo.com.au, just like U.S. yahoo used to be.
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I think slashdot folks already got worked up about that "injustice" a year and a half ago.
The only thing new here to get worked up about is Yahoo's notice that says in effect:
"Remember when we told you a year and a half ago that we were going to send you spam, even though we may have promised not to, unless you go to our web site and click a bunch of radio buttons?"
"Well, even though we could have been spamming the hell out of you this whole time, we haven't spammed you as much as we intend to."
So, starting new year's day, we're going to send you all the crap we could have been sending you anyway, but didn't."
"Anyway, if you want to miss out on that spew once our mainsleaze spam department *really* goes to town, you can still click a bunch of radio buttons and we won't send it to you after all."
Whether having to click a bunch of radio buttons a year and a half ago after already going to the considerable time and expense of clicking a single button six years before that is an "injustice" or not is a matter of personal judgement.
Personally, I LOVE to get worked up about things. So, even though it's been 19 months since Yahoo broke their solemn bond, I am *enaraged* anew at having to be reminded that I had to endure this "injustice" in return for the dubious utility the receipt of seven years of free e-mail service has given me.
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They haven't changed mine either.
They said
"But we did not completely implement this change until now"
and
"Starting January 1, 2004, Yahoo! will begin to send you messages . . ."
so I guess what the announcement means is that Yahoo's spew mongers are going start cranking out the old mainsleaze in earnest come new years.
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Yes, can't we just blackhole everything that emanates from Utah? It wouldn't hurt if Utah was physically cordoned-off either. Sure, it might inconvenience some people--Utah being so near to the United Sates and all--but I don't think this is an unreasonable action to take. After all, Utah is the source of mostly awful things: Rosanne, The Osmonds, all that horrid salt, and now SCO.
All of the workstations where I work (a small California municipal electric utility district) and the Oracle 8 servers used for power trading and load projection run win2k (Disclaimer: I'm a finance guy. I don't work in IT or electric resources).
The SCADA systems and Oracle Apps run on HPUX servers.
I remember an internal e-mail a year or two back warning us not to open a (worm-infested) ms word document that was circulating around and had already taken down the whole electrical quality control monitoring network for the western states (this is a statistical oversight system not likely to cause a blackout).
Regarding info on operating systems and grid maps being helpful to terrorists; that info is all over the place, and has been for years. As far as knowledge about how to take down the system goes, probably the best source would be ask someone in the army of anonymous H1-B workers we have running around these places.
Besides, you don't need a freaking map to see the grid. Ever notice those big-ass transmission towers criss-crossing this land or ours? It don't take no E.E. to figure out that taking a few of them out or switching a few of those lines around is bound to cause some mischief.
I *was* going to spend the weekend on dslreports.com forums getting advice about getting my sbc-yahoo connection up to with 25% of the vendor's guarnateed speed. But alas, dslreports.com is down because broadbandreports.com has been /.ed. Citizens of PA, this Californian feels your pain (Hi to all my friends from the "Bee's Hive" in Shrewsbury).
The old lineman's handsets I, uh encountered, all had little spikes in their alligator clips, so all it took was two well aimed stabs through the insulation, and you had dial tone. Maybe those spikey 'gator clips are still available.