Crypto
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Saint Charles, MO
| Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account BAD
Okay, So when I signed up for DSL service I answered yes to the question "Do you want to link your existing yahoo membership to your new sbcglobal account?" Since I've had that yahoo account since 1997 or so for instant messaging, I said yes.
This was a terrible miscalculation on my part: I thought I'd merely be linking the IM information, but I also unleashed the torrent of spam (150+ messages a day) from my old yahoo account into my new pristine sbcglobal.net account.
I called sbc support to find out how to de-link them, but they told me I was out of luck. Once linked, they cannot be seperated.
Is this correct? It seems to me that what can be made can be unmade. I dont care what the impact is to the old yahoo.com account at this point, I'd even delete it if I could, but I dont see an option to at this point. I simply want my new sbcglobal.net account to be rid of the stream of redirected Yahoo mail.
Someone please help me resolve this, I'm drowning in spam (that yahoo's spamblocker isnt catching)
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jm
join:2003-09-21
Graceville, FL | Re: Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account
They can be unmerged, but you would have to cancel your service or delete the sbc email address in question(if it were a sub account). |
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Gwailo
join:2000-07-16
Richardson, TX
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Re: Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account BAD
The old saying "hindsight is always 20-20" unfortunately applies. I've seen a number of postings (some time back) and it may be in the FAQ's to never do that. But since you have, it may be easier for you to dump the free Yahoo account and get a new one.
One other recommendation I might make ... set up a sub-account (you can have up to 10) and use one of them for your primary e-mail address and never use your primary account username for email. That way, you can always dump it if the spam gets out of control and keep your primary SBC account.
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| reply to jm
Re: Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account
So I cant delete the yahoo side of it either?
Before I merged them, I could always tell yahoo to cancel my account. Now, going to www.yahoo.com and clicking on 'preferences' takes me to my sbcglobal page.
This seems like a silly trap to have fallen into. Why would SBC and Yahoo have designed something like that that is an unrecoverable situation? Obviously I cannot cancel DSL service that I just signed up for, so now I'm stuck with all this g*dd*mn spam, every day, for a year.
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Crypto
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Saint Charles, MO
| reply to Gwailo
Re: Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account BAD
said by Gwailo  :
The old saying "hindsight is always 20-20" unfortunately applies. I've seen a number of postings (some time back) and it may be in the FAQ's to never do that. But since you have, it may be easier for you to dump the free Yahoo
I would LOVE to dump the free yahoo account at this point, but I dont see how. Please, I'll be in your debt if you can tell me how.
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jm
join:2003-09-21
Graceville, FL | reply to Crypto
Re: Linking yahoo account to sbcglobal.net account
Correct, once merged the only way to unmerge, is to cancel the email address. |
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Gwailo
join:2000-07-16
Richardson, TX
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| Now I'm confused ... sbcj, do you mean you can't cancel the freebie Yahoo address but must cancel the SBC email address? cbellers, if that is the case, hope it is not your primary address. Also seems to me there would be a way to "undo" it ... even though I've seen time and time again here that you can't. |
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jm
join:2003-09-21
Graceville, FL
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| said by Gwailo :
Now I'm confused ... sbcj, do you mean you can't cancel the freebie Yahoo address but must cancel the SBC email address?
Correct, you must cancel the SBC account. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| reply to jm
said by jm :
Correct, once merged the only way to unmerge, is to cancel the email address.
And if it's cancelled, it will then tell you that you cannot re-create that address, because it's already 'taken'.
That's not really a solution. I mean, "delete both email addresses and then use a different one" doesnt really help me out any.
Additionally, this is my primary account, so I cant cancel it without cancelling my entire DSL service, and since I'm 1 month into a 12 month contract, that's not really an option either.
Doesnt it strike you as fairly rediculous that that's the only recourse to solving this problem?
Seriously, this is getting absolutely infuriating.
Something else that's infuriating me is dealing with tier 1 support people that cant understand english. Thanks rajamanistani, but I'm not buying that your name is 'victor'. Sorry.
I'm getting to be at my wits end here.
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Crypto
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| reply to jm
said by jm :
>Correct, you must cancel the SBC account.
And how do I do that when it's the primary account?
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jm
join:2003-09-21
Graceville, FL | Well because its the master account, you cant. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| said by jm :
Well because its the master account, you cant.
So, you're telling me that I now have service I pay $40 a month for, and I'm stuck with for a year, and my email is permanently broken?
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jm
join:2003-09-21
Graceville, FL | Well theres nothing broken. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| said by jm :
Well theres nothing broken.
Except that
A> I can no longer receive mail at my sbcglobal.net address
B> the yahoo.com address (that I stopped using in the first place because of spam) is up to 200 messages a day.
I'm sorry, but this is seriously the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of with regards to an ISP. Whomever engineered this 'link' process needs to get fired. I am simply appalled that there's no work around for it. The SBC page where they advertise the ability to do this really should be more clear about the dire implications.
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psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX
| said by Crypto :
said by jm :
Well theres nothing broken.
Except that
A> I can no longer receive mail at my sbcglobal.net address
B> the yahoo.com address (that I stopped using in the first place because of spam) is up to 200 messages a day.
I'm sorry, but this is seriously the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of with regards to an ISP. Whomever engineered this 'link' process needs to get fired. I am simply appalled that there's no work around for it. The SBC page where they advertise the ability to do this really should be more clear about the dire implications.
Filter your Yahoo mail into a seperate folder. This will not download if you use POP access, and you can clear the box via webmail every once in a while to get rid of the mail.
No one forced you to merge your Yahoo ID to your new account. If the reason you wanted to dump it was because of spam, why did you merge it to begin with? I would expect that people who had been using an ID, getting mail on it, would expect that if you merge it, it will continue to get mail, good or bad. |
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Gwailo
join:2000-07-16
Richardson, TX
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No one forced you to merge your Yahoo ID to your new account. If the reason you wanted to dump it was because of spam, why did you merge it to begin with? I would expect that people who had been using an ID, getting mail on it, would expect that if you merge it, it will continue to get mail, good or bad.
Come on, give the guy a break. He has openly said he made a mistake and nobody is perfect. We're trying to help him, not nail him to the cross.
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Crypto
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Saint Charles, MO
| reply to psx_defector
said by psx_defector :
No one forced you to merge your Yahoo ID to your new account. If the reason you wanted to dump it was because of spam, why did you merge it to begin with?
I used the yahoo messenger a lot, and thought it would be nice to show up as being online. Actually, I didnt realize I even had a yahoo mail account associated with my yahoo ID (until the spam flood started) . I thought it was strictly an IM account, and yahoo.com preferences setting.
The email account was a total shock to me, honestly, if I had realized I had a yahoo mail account with hundreds of peices of spam in it, I would never have merged them.
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Gwailo
join:2000-07-16
Richardson, TX
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| cbellers, can you still go to your www.yahoo.com account and click mail and then put your old Yahoo username and password in and go to your Yahoo mail? I don't know as I've never linked them.
If so, can you then go to mail preferences in free Yahoo and tell it to immediately delete what IT thinks is spam (instead of saving them in the BULK mail folder)?
The filter is "so-so" but it would probably get rid of most of them.
I agree it's ridicilous that what you can do with a mouse click apparently cannot be undone with a mouse click but that might help some. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| Yeah, I can. Incidentally, putting in the sbcglobal.net account or the yahoo.com account both take me to the same mail page. I'm trying to use the spam filter, and deleting any spam automatically. I still get about 100 messages that make it through past that, so I'm also filtering all yahoo.com mail to it's own folder at home. I just dump it out occasionally.
This whole incident is really frustrating to me. The damage was done the very first time I signed up for initial DSL service. I feel like a retard for not having thought it out, but since my DSL wasnt working at the moment I activated my DSL service, I couldnt really check the web to see if there were any bad effects. Like I said, I just wanted to unify my Yahoo messenger accounts, I had no idea I even had a mail account with them anymore.
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psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX
| reply to Gwailo
said by Gwailo :
said by psx_defector :
Come on, give the guy a break. He has openly said he made a mistake and nobody is perfect. We're trying to help him, not nail him to the cross.
As I tell everyone, I got the Jesus hair, but I dont got the abs............
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