[165433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Wed Sep 4 21:48:04 2013
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:47:40 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue was my =
own stupidity. It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo! ID's and =
I was trying to use the wrong one, one that may have gone away a long =
time ago, rather than my still active ID. Some helpful people at Yahoo =
got me straightened out on that point. My apologies for disparaging =
Yahoo! when it was my own fault.
There's still the much more minor point that when I tried to "self =
serve" I ended up at a blank page on the Yahoo! web site, hopefully they =
will figure that out as well.
On Sep 4, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> Apparently it was implemented by a group of low-bid programmers in a =
far off land.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Enter userid, enter password.
>=20
> Drops me to a CAPTCHA screen, that's odd, never seen that before, but =
ok.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> That's some fine web coding.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Try creating a new account with the same userid, sorry, it's in use.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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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