AT&T, Yahoo may scale back co-branding deal

Yahoo and AT&T are negotiating potentially sweeping changes that could scale back their partnership

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[lkrupp]

Yawn.....

Neither company supports OS X or Linux very well. Yahoo's portal
might as well have a big banner that says "Windows Users Only, All
Others Keep Out!" Neither company provides much customer
service, if any.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[Stating]

Love Yahoo's Hourly Email Spam Feature

I just love Yahoo's hourly email spam feature. At least once an hour, sometimes more, I get a popup from Yahoo Messenger alerting me that I have an important spam email. This feature is worth its weight in gold, as I can rest assured that I will not miss an important email offering me the chance to buy "health" products, Rolex watches, or penny stocks.

To Yahoo's Terry Smell:
Is Yahoo's wonderful spam notification feature a result of that $200 million you get from AT&T? If so, I do hope that your alliance continues, as this is an example of money well spent. Please consider giving your email engineers a nice fat pay raise so that they can ensure I continue to get my daily flood of spam. Keep up the good work!

[Millerboy]

lol

lmao..

[CptMatt]

I'd Love To See AT&T Dump Yahoo!

Over the past 6 months, Yahoo!'s email service has gone into the dumps and their spam filter is a joke. I've received enewsletters from places like snopes.com and janes.com for years. All the sudden, back in January, they keep getting dumped into my junk mail box. No matter how many times I reset my spam filters and click "Not Spam", they still go into the junk mail box.
If you try to email Yahoo! tech or customer support about it, your emails eternally bounce back as undeliverable because the box is full or there is no such account, even though I used the contact link on the "Contact Us" page to open the new email.
In the meantime, as the majority of the enewsletters I actually want go to junk, I'm getting tons of real junk mail in my In box. And its the same email over and over again despit clicking the This Is Spam button on it.
Yahoo!'s email service is crap and a joke.

[Stating]

Your Problem Is Solved

There IS No Yahoo Customer Service.
That would require AT&T to fork over another $200 million to Yahoo.

Well unlike Yahoo non-Customer Service, I can solve your problem. I've built my own message filer system using the Yahoo filter system, because Yahoo does not give me the basic functionality I need.

Here is what you can do to send the 5% of Yahoo email you actually want to your Inbox, and the other 95%, which is spam, to a holding tank.

1) In Yahoo Mail, go to Options
2) Select Filters
3) Click Add
4) Give the filter a name, such as Filter-1
5) In the From Header Contains, put the good sender's name in the blank box, such as janes.com
6) In the "Then" box, select your Inbox
7) Click Add Filter
8) Repeat steps 3-7 for each email address that is good. Basically, you are building up a trusted sender list and moving message that match that criteria to your Inbox.
9) Now add a filter at the end of the list called something like Filter-99. In the Body Contains box, put in "." In the "Then" box, select a folder that is your "catch all" folder, like Unread. Any messages that are not in your trusted list will now go to this folder. Note that it is important that Filter-99 be the very last item in your filters list. If you add new trusted mail filters, may sure they appear before Filter-99.

If I can create a message filer to work-around spam and Bulk, I wonder why Terry Smell's software engineers making $100,000 cannot do this? Do Yahoo stockholders realize this? Oh, I guess they do since the stock price is unchanged over a 2 year period. Do you like making 0% on your money?

Fundamental question: Why does Yahoo even exist anymore? This is a 20th Century company at best.

[fhharris]

I agree

Why not go to a real email server..... Oh cause then you would have to pay actual money??????

[therealbean]

Why does Yahoo exist?

Well, there are a few things they do uniquely well. 1) Yahoo finance is an excellent place to download historical data about stocks and other financial instruments, 2) they host websites on the same server farm they use, so reliability is simply not an issue. 3) their tech support generally answers calls after on the first or second ring. In sum, the y do do a few things right.

[femi-stevens]

Innovative Yahoo

I believe there are bigger things to come for yahoo. They have been creative and innovative in their services lately.
Yahoomail Beta is just sleek.