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From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <28D6EA53-B8CF-42B6-8DC1-5E055C371D14@ufp.org> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:25:39 -0700 To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. I surely hope so too. When I tried to get my old yahoo email account = back (I have only ONE), and ended with the same empty page. Hope some = yahoo people on this list listening. It is important to me I can get = that email address back; some friends only know me by that address. Lixia > On Sep 4, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote: >=20 >> 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 >=20 > --=20 > Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20
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