Boycotting Yahoo!
There's trouble in tweakville; X-Setup's official site is down for
the count. Their Web host (Yahoo!) is apparently being non-responsive?
From CptSiskoX: “Yahoo! has some ridiculous policies
in place. A while ago they had a Terms of Service agreement which
claimed everything hosted on a Yahoo! site (GeoCities division
especially) was property of Yahoo! and all creative works were
relinquished to their ownership, etc. Public outrage surged
against them and they backed down eventually. As I recall, it took
them a few different tries to get the wording acceptable to the
public. Yahoo! took serious public relations damage from that
incident and several others, such as automatically signing all
members up for spam and junk e-mail (unsolicited commercial bulk
as we all know) and the user had the 'responsibility' to get off
the spam lists by changing the preferences (again) even if they
had previously said they did not want to receive the spam. Yahoo!
has continued a pattern of blunders and has a real bone-headed
approach to appeasing their users. It's exactly these type of
idiotic, oppressive and offensive acts that cause people to leave
companies for competitors.” Some are going as far as to
Boycott Yahoo!
now. Yikes.
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12 Comments
Anonymous
May 10th, 2007
at 9:47pm
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Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 7:08pm
Yahoo! Sucks
They should have never gotten rid of their Clubs service.
Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 7:09pm
Ya know, Chris… I never liked Yahoo! too much. The only good thing about Yahoo is Geocities.
Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 7:36pm
I realized in your Webcam your caption says: Wish You Were Here.
Does that have to do with the song, Wish You Were Here by Incubus ?
Or am I just another obsessed Incubus freak?
Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 7:41pm
Support dmoz.org — an opensource directory that duplicates much of the functionality of Yahoo!'s original web directory stuff.
Of course, most web directory sites are obsolete with the advent of Google, but it's still a nice idea. And no spam sent to your mailbox either.
–sean
Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 8:02pm
YAHOO SUCKS GEOCITIES SUCKS!!!!
Anonymous
June 15th, 2002
at 10:23pm
i have never used yahoo all that much so i could take it or leave it. hey Rachel maybe it is the Pink Floyd song “wish you were here” and not Incubus.. of course im a little out of it and have never heard Incubus' song. At least i cannot recall it at this time. Its all good though :-)
Anonymous
June 16th, 2002
at 1:49am
Before jumping on the boycotting bandwagon without thinking, give the poor folks at Yahoo! a chance. Jeez, everyone is so up tight and ready to pounce these days. As if there is nothing else to do…
Anonymous
June 16th, 2002
at 2:20am
Hey, I never thought Xteq's site is hosted by Yahoo!. If the Xteq's site down, how about FIFA World Cup's site?
Anonymous
June 17th, 2002
at 9:28am
Y'know what's funny? Yahoo's web hosting service used to be an independent company known as Simplenet, and it actually used to be quite decent. I used to recommend them quite readily to anyone who needed a basic host with generous space and without CGI or PHP functionality (they did offer MivaScript, which was a rather bizarre but easy-to-learn embedded scripting language along the lines of PHP).
And then Broadcast.com bought Simplenet. Things, for the most part, stayed the same.
And then Yahoo bought Broadcast.com.
For a few months things remained as they had been, but the situation was soon to change.
The pricing and hosting plans were changed– so much for the promises of unlimited bandwidth that Simplenet had originally advertised. The company was re-christened Yahoo Website Services. The payment process became incredibly complicated, requiring a Yahoo Wallet and making it nearly impossible for one person to administer the site and another to pay; the user interface for managing domains became a bit more difficult to use; and the quality of support dropped faster than the Free Fall at Six Flags.
So much for *those* recommendations. Now I'm hosting sites through Valueweb and Aletia instead.
Anonymous
June 17th, 2002
at 10:10am
I used to work at broadcast.com when they bought simplenet….It was happy sailing for both companies for awhile..then mark cuban sold em out and bought the mavs….now both the broadcasting and web dev shops suck ass….
Chris Edison,
International Hipster Of Danger
Neil
February 7th, 2008
at 4:48am
Uses of Yahoo mail beware: Yahoo don’t deliver a percentage of messages being sent to you, regardless of whether they are spam or not.
This is part of a poorly thought out anti-spam policy that only serves to frustrate Yahoo mail users and businesses who deal with them.
In short:
Yahoo email is unreliable, and only fit for people who do not use email for any serious purpose at all.
Neil