Y! sucks

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:37 am

I had some admiration for Yahoo products in the past. Not anymore

Does these happen with you too?

Everytime I send out a mail from my co.in account, a stupid matrimony ad is appended at the end.

If I leave my Y! chat for a while I get tons of spam from automatically generated psuedo users.

I cant get into the Y! customized "user rooms" anymore (Dont confuse with the pre-registered yahoo rooms, I can enter into India, delhi, calcutta chat rooms but not the user created rooms ). This happened when I migrated to the latest version available.

The yahoo maps dynamic traffic info is fallible.

Missing mails with Y! groups.

What makes them think that they can compete with other dotcoms such as google?

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:50 am

I only use the emailing service of Y!....so far havent faced a serious problem.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:26 am

Y! Launchcast Radio rocks!!!!

by **Sharjeel** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:38 am

Y1 is good. Maybe you use the web-based chat a lot and this makes you get a lot of msgs from 'psuedo-users'. Also, check your signature to see if it contains some spurious code for Ads.

Website · by **mayumi** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:43 am

Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you :evil:

by **Mayavi Morpheus** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:04 pm

mayumi wrote:Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you

you got booted by someone? What did u do to piss him off?

Website · by **mayumi** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:09 pm

Mayavi Morpheus wrote:
mayumi wrote:Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you

you got booted by someone? What did u do to piss him off?

I didn't piss him

i was just just telling some stuff and he booted me

by **CtrlAltDel** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:37 pm

mayumi wrote:
Mayavi Morpheus wrote:
mayumi wrote:Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you
you got booted by someone? What did u do to piss him off?
I didn't piss him i was just just telling some stuff and he booted me

thats rude Mayavi! u shudnt have done that

by **Ar!e$** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:41 pm

Mayavi Morpheus wrote:
mayumi wrote:Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you

you got booted by someone? What did u do to piss him off?

was it u mayavi.. :shock:

by **Mayavi Morpheus** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:46 pm

hey, I dunno how to boot

by **Ar!e$** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:57 pm

Mayavi Morpheus wrote:hey, I dunno how to boot

fir kiddo ko kisney boot kia tha.. :evil:

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:31 pm

mayumi wrote:Y! chat is fine not unless someone crazy boots you

Did you know you can use an anti-booter?

by **rock_26iin** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:34 pm

Why would you not want your boot to be polished by someone?

Or did they hit you with the boot after polishing it?

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:46 pm

Sharjeel wrote:Y1 is good. Maybe you use the web-based chat a lot and this makes you get a lot of msgs from 'psuedo-users'. Also, check your signature to see if it contains some spurious code for Ads.

I dont use web based chat. Below is the ad that was appended to one of the mail messages I've sent to my boss thru Y! when I did not have access to the my work email.

"

Do you Yahoo!?

New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.

"

and certainly my signature does not say that I'm a marriage broker

.

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:46 pm

Boleto...virtual boot paalish kya

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:47 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:Y! Launchcast Radio rocks!!!!

I do agree that Y! Launchcast radio is fun stuff. Y! finance is yet another valuable product.

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:49 pm

kk wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:Y! Launchcast Radio rocks!!!!

I do agree that Y! Launchcast radio is fun stuff. Y! finance is yet another valuable product.

I agree with u on the Y! Finance thing. its a very useful service.

has ne one tried out Yahoo TV?

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:56 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:I only use the emailing service of Y!....so far havent faced a serious problem.

Neither did I!! Personal Y! mail account is most reliable and agreeable except for the ads at the end of the message. I dont want to send ads when I am sending a formal mail.

by **Mayavi Morpheus** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:07 pm

Ar!e$ wrote:
Mayavi Morpheus wrote:hey, I dunno how to boot

fir kiddo ko kisney boot kia tha..

She is a crazy chic... she must've booted herself out or yahoo admins must've booted her because she is online 24 * 7.

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:08 pm

kk wrote:Neither did I!! Personal Y! mail account is most reliable and agreeable except for the ads at the end of the message. I dont want to send ads when I am sending a formal mail.

@yahoo.com doesnt sound formal actually...I prefer gmail when sending formal mails...else i use my corporate id...

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:28 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:
kk wrote:Neither did I!! Personal Y! mail account is most reliable and agreeable except for the ads at the end of the message. I dont want to send ads when I am sending a formal mail.
@yahoo.com doesnt sound formal actually...I prefer gmail when sending formal mails...else i use my corporate id...

What if you have to send formal mails and you dont have any corporate ID (say when one gets fired and has to send applications, not that I went thru any of it :lol:

). Not everyone can afford to pay for maintaining their own email domain. Yahoo does not sound formal neither does hotmail. But people had to use them in the past when gmail did not emerge yet.

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:31 pm

kk wrote:
What if you have to send formal mails and you dont have any corporate ID (say when one gets fired and has to send applications, not that I went thru any of it ). Not everyone can afford to pay for maintaining their own email domain. Yahoo does not sound formal neither does hotmail. But people had to use them in the past when gmail did not emerge yet.

Yahoo had ads back then(before gmail)?

by kk » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:01 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:
kk wrote:
What if you have to send formal mails and you dont have any corporate ID (say when one gets fired and has to send applications, not that I went thru any of it ). Not everyone can afford to pay for maintaining their own email domain. Yahoo does not sound formal neither does hotmail. But people had to use them in the past when gmail did not emerge yet.
Yahoo had ads back then(before gmail)?

good point! but gmail is still in its beta version... I would not make it as my primary mail account yet. I trust gmail team, but a beta is always a beta - prone to bugs/ hacks.

See

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/200 ... tachments/

http://www.lostcoders.net/index-single-816.htm

and more.

Well the examples about sending job applications in the previous missive are just instances where one can one resort to use yahoo for formal mails. To give you another example, I once had to send a formal mail thru Y! (yeah when google did not exist) to my boss on one of my errands when I could not access to my secured corporate email server. And on my return, I was recieved with a surprise that I belong to a community where marriages are arranged! :lol:

No wonder Y! does a good marketting! I 've used Y! for years now and am thankful, but if they are not going to get better then its gonna loose free/ cheap/unfaithful customers like me :twisted:

by **akhilis2cool** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:31 pm

kk wrote:good point! but gmail is still in its beta version... I would not make it as my primary mail account yet. I trust gmail team, but a beta is always a beta - prone to bugs/ hacks.
See
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/200 ... tachments/
http://www.lostcoders.net/index-single-816.htm
and more.

Well the examples about sending job applications in the previous missive are just instances where one can one resort to use yahoo for formal mails. To give you another example, I once had to send a formal mail thru Y! (yeah when google did not exist) to my boss on one of my errands when I could not access to my secured corporate email server. And on my return, I was recieved with a surprise that I belong to a community where marriages are arranged! No wonder Y! does a good marketting! I 've used Y! for years now and am thankful, but if they are not going to get better then its gonna loose free/ cheap/unfaithful customers like me

thanks for the links man.

but i never expirienced those problems.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:36 pm

lotsa rediffmail messages are acompanied by naukri.com ads

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