C DM
join:2002-12-31
| reply to maxriders
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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maxriders
join:2006-05-18
Crystal Lake, IL
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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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someuser
join:2003-12-10
Powell, OH
| reply to Nightfall
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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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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said by rolande :I have been getting close to 120-150 a day in the past week or so. Before that I was seeing maybe 50-70 per day. The volume has certainly increased significantly. I'd be experiencing a lot of pain and suffering without SpamAssassin. It catches more than 95% of the crap automatically. I have Spamassassin running on my host and it is nice. I have been "training" it the past 4 months and it catches more and more spam. I probably get about 3-4 in my inbox in a given week. Everything else is caught now. The only disadvantage is to train it, you have to put the good mail in a "learn_ham" folder and the spam that does get through in the "learn_spam" folder. So, when the nightly cron job runs, it learns from what doesn't get caught initially. Once it gets trained though, its nice!
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maxriders
join:2006-05-18
Crystal Lake, IL | reply to NormanS
»yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlim···-coming/
See all the complaints regarding the ads appearing on ATT/Yahoo services |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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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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rolande
Certifiable
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join:2002-05-24
Powell, OH
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| reply to recrum
I have been getting close to 120-150 a day in the past week or so. Before that I was seeing maybe 50-70 per day. The volume has certainly increased significantly. I'd be experiencing a lot of pain and suffering without SpamAssassin. It catches more than 95% of the crap automatically. |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
·Site5.com
·AT&T Midwest
·Comcast
| reply to Mchart
Registering a domain: $7 a year
Webhost: $5-$7 a month
Accessing your email via web, pop3, or IMAP without dealing with ads: Priceless
Seriously, I have been doing this for years since I bought my domain. Its great and if you are fed up with ISP email, it is worth it.
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C DM
join:2002-12-31
| reply to Old_Grouch
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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Old_Grouch
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join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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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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digitalfreak
join:2005-12-09
49533 | reply to Mchart
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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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to wings10
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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nwrickert
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | reply to wings10
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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wings10
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South Elgin, IL | reply to Mchart
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.
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to recrum
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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nwrickert
sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | reply to recrum
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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recrum
join:2002-09-10
Akron, OH | reply to Mchart
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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amadeus2000
join:2003-04-14
Santa Clara, CA
| reply to Mchart
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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wings10
I Am Legend
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South Elgin, IL
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| reply to beers66
Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here
said by beers66 :Just made the switch to Thunderbird. May make the switch to cable service next. Why? Comcast and other isp's providers will probably add ad's next in their web mail. Use Outlook and you will have no problems with seeing ad's.
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to beers66
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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