Comments on: Boycotting Yahoo!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:48:27 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:10:11 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:28:59 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:20:34 +0000

Hey, I never thought Xteq's site is hosted by Yahoo!. If the Xteq's site down, how about FIFA World Cup's site?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:49:18 +0000

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…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 05:23:29 +0000

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 :-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 03:02:02 +0000

YAHOO SUCKS GEOCITIES SUCKS!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:41:07 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:36:35 +0000

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?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:09:04 +0000

Ya know, Chris… I never liked Yahoo! too much. The only good thing about Yahoo is Geocities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:08:54 +0000

Yahoo! Sucks
They should have never gotten rid of their Clubs service.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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