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.
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. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/