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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Hmmm...not seeing them (yet) on the newfangled "beta" system...
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Cleveland, OH | What annoys me is that I pay for DSL with email access. Why should I have to view ads on the mail site from AT&T? | |
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58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Same reason you get ads on cable channels...
Yahoo's webmail sucks rocks anyway. Use a POP3 client instead.
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join:2005-02-19
Morris, IL
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Actually the beta Yahoo email is very good - I no longer use POP3 clients for several reasons
1 - I can access my email anywhere without having to lug my laptop with me
2 - I receive all my email and feeds in one place
3 - Not downloading email to my system means less chance of getting a virus that my virus detector might miss
4 - I can use someone elses' infinite storage facilities
So - why should I forgo the premium webmail service that is included with my AT&T DSL to get rid of the SPAM?? | |
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58ef2c0
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here For me, the Yahoo! mail beta is bloated, slow and unreliable. And now it has ads.
Enough for me to avoid it. Even Netzero's freebie service is not this bad.
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Columbus, OH | beta now has ads | |
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join:2001-03-22
Portage, MI
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| said by RadioDoc  :Same reason you get ads on cable channels... Yahoo's webmail sucks rocks anyway. Use a POP3 client instead. Actually, you dont pay for cable channels, you pay for access to cable channels. In regards to this, you ARE paying for internet access and a mail ACCOUNT - you should not be served ads on something you directly pay for. And def not served ads when a 'no-ad' solution is not available.
Of course, why is everyone still using ISP centric email accounts? Especially when there are better email accounts available for free. | |
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58ef2c0
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here I pay for access to the Internet too; I do not pay for the Internet. Same thing.
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join:2005-02-19
Morris, IL
| My email to abuse@sbcglobal.net received the following response
Thank you for contacting AT&T Internet Abuse.
We apologize for the inconvenience. The advertising is a needed step
towards providing world class service at an affordable price.
AT&T Yahoo! now offers an ad-free Business Email service. For more
information, please see
»smallbusiness.att.yahoo.com/email/
Thank you,
The AT&T Internet Abuse Department
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I am more than willing to pay an additional $34.95 per year to help AT&T recoup the cost of DSL....I am not willing to be forced to purchase a useless, poorly designed email package with a domain name I do not need, to get AT&T to stop SPAMMING me
So, adblockplus works just fine - and will stay in place. If ClearSky is a viable option AT&T has lost a formerly happy customer
As to the Morris stale news comment... I get my news off the internet... doesnt matter if I'm in Morris or Iraq - CNN FOXNews, AP and Reuters serve the same content at the same time | |
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58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Has everyone had their sense of humor surgically removed?
The Morris comment was a joke.
Anyway, I'm sure AT&T is not going to shed a tear over you leaving. Unfortunately, that's the way the game is played at big corporations these days.
There are alternate ways to access your email via the web.
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Chicago, IL
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Joke?
Hey, I know for a fact that CNN, Fox, AP, and Reuters all delay the news by three - four hours if the IP shows that it's from Morris. Vindictive bastards!
La Grange? Total blackout!
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Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
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Premium
join:2001-03-22
Portage, MI
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| said by charpaula :My email to abuse@sbcglobal.net received the following response Thank you for contacting AT&T Internet Abuse. We apologize for the inconvenience. The advertising is a needed step towards providing world class service at an affordable price. This cracks me up. I have yet to receive 'world class service' from anyone claiming world class service. Heck, some internal groups at work claim 'world class service' and they dont.
The only time I have received 'world class service' is from a place/buisness that did not claim such standards. | |
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join:2005-02-19
Morris, IL
| SPAM SPAM and more SPAM from AT&T Yahoo I just spent an hour on the phone with customer support and tech support. I AM BEING SPAMMED BY AT&T
The DSL package hasn't changed... it is still includes Premium Yahoo email service that I pay for. A premium service that is SPAM free - until today
I have had DSL for many years - been very happy - but I will not accept advertising/SPAM on a service I pay for. No if buts or ands about it!!!
If AT&T has lowballed the price of DSL to the point it does not cover costs (and we know they have) than it seems as a business decision they should increase costs to at a minimum break even.
I am being SPAMMED by AT&T... there is no other term for it.
Someone show me the change to my agreement that says you will now be receiving advertisements/SPAM from us... and oh yeah you are paying us for that SPAM to be annoying delivered on your Homepage and email
Do I sound upset?? You bet...I don't take SPAM lightly
If AT&T Yahoo doesn't roll back to the previous version of email service I'll be placing a call to Clear Sky
Will I pay more money? You bet... gladly not to receive advertising
AT&T - did you hear that... I will gladly pay more for no advertising.... so why don't you charge me more and for those unwilling to pay more... you can SPAM them!!!
I am so angry I think steam must be coming out of my ears
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join:2001-05-05
Chicago, IL | Re: SPAM SPAM and more SPAM from AT&T Yahoo Why even use their email services. Although I agree that they should not spam us.
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Ads in a paid subscription. |
said by kpollari :What annoys me is that I pay for DSL with email access. Why should I have to view ads on the mail site from AT&T? Not that I like the idea of ads, but...
See the screen shot. The landlady pays a subscription for that newspaper! Ads? Oh, the horror!
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Where am I?
join:2001-05-09
Birmingham, AL
| I would think that an ISP doesn't really have to provide webmail access. They provide your email account(s) and access to the mail servers through a suggested email client. It has just been sort of a value-added service until recently. They've decided to try to recoup some of the cost of running a webmail system with features that users have come to expect. IF they gave you an option, would you pay a few dollars more NOT to see the ads? I just ignore the ads anyway.
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join:2006-09-24
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San Jose, CA
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here said by beers66 :Just made the switch to Thunderbird. May make the switch to cable service next. As long as you are willing to pay more for ad-free web mail; nothing really wrong with that decision. But my price point for HSI is about $25; and I prefer to use an email client over web browser for email access, anyway.
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join:2005-02-19
Morris, IL
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here I have never used an adblocker... because I believe sites I visit that I am not paying for deserve to get advertising revenue
My apologies to all those sites - because I have now installed the Firefox extension AdBlockPlus
ByeBye annoying right bar nasty ads
I also called ClearSky for a quote - I can't get higher speed with DSL - too far from the CO.... I would be more than willing to pay the current $35 per month for the highest DSL speeds. So, I know ClearSky will be higher... it just depends on preceived value for the increased cost
So, instead of adding revenue to the AT&T coffers the ad business may have just pushed me to another provider
BTW, if you are using Firefox I highly recommend the AdBlockPlus extension. It won't do anything with the left bar ads - but those aren't as objectionable
And to the silly analogy of newspaper ads... yep thats one of the reasons I don't get a newspaper - not to mention the fact the news is already stale by the time it reaches me. | |
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58ef2c0
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Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Probably hasn't been implemented on the yahoo mail beta yet. | |
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Alakar
Facts do not cease to exist when ignored
join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here said by Mchart :Probably hasn't been implemented on the yahoo mail beta yet. Several people above posted that it was showing on the Beta now, I'm not seeing it.
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by Mchart :Probably hasn't been implemented on the yahoo mail beta yet. I just checked my accounts; three sub accounts, and the Primary account, all beta. No ads in the sub accounts, ads are in the Primary account.
I don't consider ads to be spam; or else the San Jose Mercury, the Wall Street Journal, and World magazine are spamming us to death.
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Premium
join:2001-06-20
Woodridge, IL | Mchart, try using a program like PopPeeper. that is what I use, and it is an excellent email client 
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Premium
join:2001-05-01
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Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL
·AT&T Yahoo
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here I've actually known about that for a while. Only issue is just that ever increasing amount of ad providers, and address's. | |
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Old_Grouch
Don't just sit there silly DO something
Premium
join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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| For anyone who feels left out because ads have not yet arrived in e-mail, just wait until they send you the beta of your new home page.
Yes, boyz 'n girlz, now you will not only be able to get ads on your home page, but they are far larger and more animated than ever!
Yessiree, visit the beta and move things around, add stuff or delete stuff and enjoy. Oh, move everything EXCEPT the ads and delete things EXCEPT their ads.
There is a feedback feature where you are warned that they shall own the content of your response. I went ahead and gave my permission for them to own my response. The balance of my feedback probably doesn't qualify to be posted here 'cause this is a family site.
And with a bovine mod, you have to be udderly silly to get too carried away.
Now, where's that link to myway.com ? | |
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Don't just sit there silly DO something
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join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by Old_Grouch :For anyone who feels left out because ads have not yet arrived in e-mail, just wait until they send you the beta of your new home page. How can they change my home page? How can they insert ads?
file://localhost/C:/Documents and Settings/Norman/My Documents/My Pictures/V-W-X-Y-Z/Yamaneko/Mana-musume/maya2005-2.jpg
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join:2007-03-03
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here said by drmorley :Using your ISP provided email is so 1999 That's about what I was thinking. Who uses their ISP's e-mail any more now a days. I use my ISP's as a spam dumping ground.
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Penguins
Have You Played Atari Today?
join:2001-12-01
Cleveland, OH | Get Adblock + Filterset-G updater and you will never see an advertisement on any site, ever.
Both are free, have no spyware and work perfectly.
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join:2005-02-19
Morris, IL
| ISP email so 1999? Maybe if the email being provided was a 1999 version. The webbased email is feature rich and available wherever I go without my having to lug my laptop around
I would not use the basic Yahoo or MSN emails due to their ads. Gmail also has ads, but they are texted based without flashing geeky lights and what not that give me a migraine
DSL service comes with Premium Yahoo email - a non-advertising stand alone package available from Yahoo for $19.95. The Premium package included with my DSL service
Instead AT&T has changed my Premium Yahoo email - without changing my TOS or features - to an adbased piece of garbage
As a result - I've installed the AdBlockPlus Firefox plugin I would have preferred not to as I believe free websites have a right to monetize... Notice I said FREE websites
Can't wait for the next installment of the continuing saga of AT&T Yahoo DSL... For all of you using Outlook or some other email client to access your AT&T Yahoo mail----can advertising appended to all incoming and outgoing mail be far behind??? | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here said by charpaula :For all of you using Outlook or some other email client to access your AT&T Yahoo mail----can advertising appended to all incoming and outgoing mail be far behind??? That would violate RFC 2821...
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drmorley
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-20
Park Ridge, IL
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| said by charpaula :ISP email so 1999? Maybe if the email being provided was a 1999 version. The webbased email is feature rich and available wherever I go without my having to lug my laptop around Or with all the money you're saving getting DSL @ 19.95/month you could invest an additional $5/month and pay for a hosting service without ads.
Back in '99 DSL was $50/month and the speeds were 768/128. The speeds keep going up on the price keeps going down. If they need to use ads to subsidize their service so be it.
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wings10
I Am Legend
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South Elgin, IL | Is everyone suppose to see these ads now? I checked and have not seen any.
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Don't just sit there silly DO something
Premium
join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
clubs: | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here my sense is that they are spreading.
They just turned on for me last night 'tween 1:00 and 8:00 a.m.
Be patient. | |
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join:2005-12-09
49533
3 edits | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here Yep, they just showed up for me this morning. I use Firefox/Adblock Plus to block them, but the blank space where they were still takes up a large chunk of screen real estate. I'm also seeing links now for yahoo shopping, yahoo autos, etc. on the left pane where the folders are. Absolute BS!
Between this crap and the announcement that AT&T intends to start spying on their customers for the RIAA/MPAA, I'm starting to consider other options for Internet access. It's really too bad to, since I've had next to no problems with my DSL service. | |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
Premium
join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here said by digitalfreak :Between this crap and the announcement that AT&T intends to start spying on their customers for the RIAA/MPAA, I'm starting to consider other options for Internet access. It's really too bad to, since I've had next to no problems with my DSL service. I feel you bro! As if my sync loss with strong thunderstorms wasn't enough now ads in email. Give me a break. This is to be expected with free services such as hotmail but not with PAID internet service. I don't care if it's $14.99 a month or $59.99 a month, if I'm paying, the hell with the ads, they are annoying. I'd rather my DSL bill go up $10 a month than put up with ads. If I ever get another option out this way, I may consider switching. As of right now there's only 2 things I like about AT&T, 1) AT&T Direct and 2) PPPoE stability.
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here When I first got DSL (at $49.99 per month), the disk allowance for email was small (5 or 10 Meg, as I recall), and there was no webmail and no spam filtering.
You can avoid the ads by using a POP3 client and avoiding the webmail interface. You still pay less, and you still have a lot more disk space for email.
I really see this thread as much ado about nothing. When SBC originally made a deal with Yahoo, it was obvious that part of the deal was that Yahoo would get to use our eyeballs for its own profits. All that is happening now is that they are changing the way they are using our eyeballs.
I do hope that Yahoo is getting paid by the click. Since I won't ever click on these ads, they won't generate any income from me.
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North Richland Hills, TX | I don't see adds must be in the preferances somewhere. | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo said by koma3504 : I don't see adds must be in the preferances somewhere. Not in the preferences on the web site. But, if you are running ad blockers in conjunction with your browser, and even MSIE7 now has some ad blocker capability, you won't see many, or even any ads.
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo said by koma3504 :Im not running any add blockers Other people reported seeing ads before I saw any.
I saw ads in the Primary account before I saw them in the sub accounts; at one point, I had ads in some accounts, but not in others.
About half the time I see evidence of blocked ads. I have a few custom blocks in my 'hosts' file, but I haven't updated the ad sites in over a year. I run the latest versions of the browsers: Opera 9.21 has some native blocking built in. Firefox 2.0.0.4 has script and ad blocking extensions, as does SeaMonkey 1.1.2. I haven't accessed the web mail site with MS Internet Explorer 7 yet.
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North Richland Hills, TX | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo so its one of those things that is gonna slowley trickle it's way around to all the servers. | |
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wings10
I Am Legend
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join:2004-06-09
South Elgin, IL
1 edit | I don't even see them in my free yahoo e-mail. Maybe it goes by when you created your account?
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San Jose, CA
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Ads in free Yahoo! Mail account. | .JPG/thumb.jpg "200302 bytes")
Ads in free Yahoo! Mail account. |
said by wings10 :I don't even see them in my free yahoo e-mail. Maybe it goes by when you created your account? I created my free Yahoo! Mail account in 1999. Except for a period between Dec. 18, 2002 and some time in 2004, when it was merged with an '@pacbell.net' account, it has always had ads.
I keep forgetting: Even though the account has been severed from the '@pacbell.net' account, it still shows the AT&T co-branding. So I will add a new screen shot from a pure free webmail account.
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join:2003-04-14
Santa Clara, CA
| I solved this by simply having gmail pick-up my mail. Its ads aren't an eyesore. So I see this as a good way for Yahoo to send people to gmail. That should help there business. How long will it be before the iPhone has adds, so AT&T can upgrade the system to 3G? | |
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join:2002-09-10
Akron, OH | not to add fuel to the fire, but has anyone experienced an increase in the amount of spam emails? Mine has almost doubled since the ads started and getting worse. The only up side is yahoo's spam filter has caught them all. | |
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sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo Yes, spam is up. But it is also up on another system that has nothing to do with Yahoo or AT&T.
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by recrum :not to add fuel to the fire, but has anyone experienced an increase in the amount of spam emails? Mine has almost doubled since the ads started and getting worse. The only up side is yahoo's spam filter has caught them all. Spam isn't up on all of my at&t Yahoo! HSI sub accounts; I actually have a couple which get no spam at all. OTOH, spam is up on a couple of email accounts which aren't even associated with at&t Yahoo! HSI.
Don't fall for the "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy.
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Certifiable
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join:2002-05-24
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I Am Legend
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join:2004-06-09
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sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo I am seeing ads with my @ameritech.net address.
You only see them when using webmail. If you use a pop3 client to read your mail you won't see the ads.
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by wings10 :Is this just e-mails that end in @att.net? I have an sbc address and I just checked my e-mail using yahoo and still do not see ad's. Using »mail.yahoo.com/ to check my '@pacbell.net' email accounts I see ads on the site.
Using the Mercury/32 "Mercury POP3 Distributing Client" to access 'pop.att.yahoo.com' I see no ads in the email.
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digitalfreak
join:2005-12-09
49533 | Not sure if it's new or part of the AdBlock Plus add-in I use in Firefox, but I'm now seeing an arrow between your e-mail window and the right side ad. Clicking on it removes the ad... | |
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Don't just sit there silly DO something
Premium
join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo I sense that they are still twiddling with things.
Clicking the arrow for me covers the ad to display wider messages but only until the next screen refresh when things snap back to ugly.
Add to that the fact that sometimes my efforts to get into e-mail are met with error messages and multiple screen refresh attempts with no obvious reason (with or without the IE add-on).
I think the net is that they are taking full advantage of the word 'beta' and making changes on the fly. | |
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| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo said by Old_Grouch :I sense that they are still twiddling with things. Clicking the arrow for me covers the ad to display wider messages but only until the next screen refresh when things snap back to ugly. Add to that the fact that sometimes my efforts to get into e-mail are met with error messages and multiple screen refresh attempts with no obvious reason (with or without the IE add-on). I think the net is that they are taking full advantage of the word 'beta' and making changes on the fly. That is how that arrow was designed to work. There really are no quick changes on the fly, the new releases come out only once in a while, but there could always be a possibility of some sort of issues on the server you are on and/or the way things work on your client/computer/connection sometimes (since there are people who have different problems here and there, while there are a whole lot more who don't). | |
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| someuser
join:2003-12-10
Powell, OH
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo said by Nightfall :Registering a domain: $7 a year Webhost: $5-$7 a month Accessing your email via web, pop3, or IMAP without dealing with ads: Priceless I agree. And never changing your e-mail address again is a big plus. I don't bother with web host, however. I turned it over to a mail handling service -- and I am happy to pay them my whopping $20 a year for nearly spam-free e-mail via Web, WAP, IMAP, POP/SMTP, and more addresses than I can think of. Fastmail, RunBox, Tuffmail were the ones I looked at. The web site Email Discussions covers it.
»www.emaildiscussions.com/
Still, if your needs are small and you want a free service it is hard to beat GMail with POP/SMTP access. | |
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| | maxriders
join:2006-05-18
Crystal Lake, IL
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo see how many people are complaining about ads. They are now even blocking negative ads. Several people I have spoken to have posted complaints but they never appear.
»yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlim···-coming/ | |
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join:2002-12-31
| Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo said by maxriders :see how many people are complaining about ads. They are now even blocking negative ads. Several people I have spoken to have posted complaints but they never appear. » yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlim···-coming/ I believe this has already been posted, even on the same page. | |
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