
I am still using a rocket mail address
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Yahoo!’s free online email service is to grow new tentacles with the company planning to add two domains alongside its existing “@yahoo.com” addresses. The struggling internet firm said it is to introduce “@ymail.com” and “@rocketmail.com” to give people who use its service a better choice of Yahoo! email address options. …
My first web email address - circa 1996? - was at rocketmail.com. A few years later Yahoo!!1! swallowed them and I lost the rocketmail address (I think I got the same word at yahoo dot com but gave up on it). I wonder if I can get it back?
Ymail, on the other hand, seems like a blatant attempt to keep up with Google Mail. I quote gmail.com rather than googlemail.com, but my address is valid on both.
It sounds like Yaho0!!!!! are taking a slightly different approach and allowing somebody@yahoo.com to be a different person than somebody@ymail.com - sounds a bit dodgy to me, confusion will abound.
Not to mention that people with existing yahoo.com addresses will probably be quick to grab their equivalents - just like when a new TLD is released, with lots of arsey gumpf about how it will open up more addresses - all that really happens is companies splurge out even more on protecting their existing brand.
That'd be a nice change: e-mail that actually gets to its destination! BRILLIANT! How about you twats at Yahoo fix the fucking problem as opposed to offering up "new and exciting features" to try and keep people from ditching your ass for gmail? It's one thing to block e-mail responses for craigslist, but blocking work related e-mails too? I realize your spam filtering is blind, but does it have to be retarded, too?
I had a rocketmail from years ago, converted into a Yahoo.com email address. Then one day in 2000 I got a note from Yahoo that my account was suspended for "TOS Violations". That's all, no explanation, nothing. Repeated emails to the company: nothing. Phone calls: nothing. Even tried dropping in to the office in South Bay: nothing. Wrote letters to the board members, including the useless Yang and Filo: nothing. All my Yahoo! Points! deleted, all my emails, notes, everything. Yahoo "support" Since then I have tried, every few years, to re-register that email address: no luck, always "not allowed". Screw you Yahoo, your customer service is a pathetic joke, you obviously care less for your members than I do for my arse lint.
Yes, I agree with you. It seems that one of the tricks some people use when their product is failing, is to add new features to it. I would much prefer them to fix what's broken instead of trying to distract us with shiny new things. It's something like "fixing" your brakes by adding a racing strip to your car. It doesn't usually work.
I had a yahoo account once, a long time ago. One of the first ones when they first started offering up free email service. Had it up till a few years ago when it got hacked and taken. Spent two and a half months arguging with Yahell admins and their lackluster 'support' trying to get it back. And in the end, I said fuck it and went to gmail and never looked back. Hell, considering the profile picture on my yahoo account matched my driver's liscense photo scan and my IP address matched the previous logins to that account, but nope, no way in hell it was actually mine.
Yahell is a dying entity and the sooner it realizes that the sooner Google wins
when I had a yahoo account ... then I realised it was rubbish and stuck with my hotmail account {of almighty win}
now I want to abuse freecycle to get stuff to sell on ebay and I need a yahoo account, so I went to get my old one back and they said "have you ever bought anything with that yahoo account via credit card?"
apparently the only way to recover an account is to have handed over your money, sounds dead free to me.
so now I can't sell stuff I get for free :(
anyone else got any getrichquick schemes ? :P
Blair,
I, too, looked in vain for two days. I finally succeeded by using the ymail promotion at Yahoo Asia: http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/
One BIG problem: I had to create a new Yahoo account. I couldn't just add my ymail address to my current Yahoo account. Please, someone, tell me I'm wrong!