[165421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Wed Sep 4 09:37:18 2013
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <5226AD5C.8030407@alter3d.ca>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:36:37 -0500
To: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca> =
wrote:
> The issue was studied thoroughly by a committee of MBAs who, after =
extensive thought (read: 19 bottles of scotch), determined that there =
was money to be made.
>=20
> whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Apparently it was implemented by a group of low-bid programmers in a far =
off land.
I have, err, had, a Yahoo! account I used for two things, getting e-mail =
from Yahoo! groups and accessing Flickr. I was on Flickr not a two or =
three months ago to fix a picture someone noticed was in the wrong =
album.
When I saw this I thought I should log in again to reset my one year =
ticker. Off to www.yahoo.com and click sign in.
Enter userid, enter password.
Drops me to a CAPTCHA screen, that's odd, never seen that before, but =
ok.
Enter CAPTCHA and it redirects me to "https://edit.yahoo.com/forgot", =
which when reached from said CAPTCHA screen renders as a 100% blank =
page.
That's some fine web coding.
I went to the flickr site, tried to log in. At least there it tells me =
my userid is in the process of being recycled. No option to recover.
Try creating a new account with the same userid, sorry, it's in use.
So as far as I can tell:
- The must be inactive for one year is BS, and/or logging into Flickr =
didn't count in my case.
- No notifications are sent, so if you're a person who is there for =
things like Yahoo groups and forwards your e-mail elsewhere you may be =
using the service in a way that generates no logs.
- There is no way to get an account back that is in the recycling =
phase, which is frankly stupid.
As a result Yahoo! has lost a Flickr and Groups member, and I'm not sure =
I see any reason to sign up again at this point.
--=20
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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