[165436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Thu Sep 5 01:05:02 2013
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 23:47:28 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <28D6EA53-B8CF-42B6-8DC1-5E055C371D14@ufp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
Error or not, the recycling problem's real. I find myself having received
some sales figures for a Jiffy Lube chain somewhere, and I have to assume
that there will be a lot of instances where set-and-forget users have
supplied their Yahoo address to business partners, financial institutions,
etc. and who will continue to send confidential mail to the recycled
address.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
