Yahoo chat?

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I have a Yahoo email account for non-personal stuff, like mailing lists. Lately they have added all sorts of features that I have determinedly ignored.

I have my settings for their stupid Chat feature as "Invisible." Every once in a while I receive a pop up notification that some somebody with one ridiculous name or another wants to chat with me. I click Ignore, and they tell me if I choose Ignore I will be invisible to that person.

Hello? I thought I was already Invisible?

They put Wayne Dyer in with the Spam - why not these ridiculuous chat offers?????
 
From my understanding, "invisible" refers to whether or not you actually show up as being online.

That doesn't stop someone from sending you an offline message and it showing up. You can send offline messages to anyone, whether you can see them or not. So how do they know you're there? Because you're on a directory somewhere or perhaps they've picked up your user name if someone captured your "identity" by looking at a spam response. In yahoo, your user name is the same as the first part of your email address.

Their ignore is actually more like "block".

One thing you can do, is keep your profile name from being published by making it private.

I hate chat so much, I still use Yahoo classic mail because I can't stand all of that chat stuff showing up every time I check my email.
 
My account is the Classic one too - but all that extra carp - YIKES!

And you know what frosts me? They ask me every time I want to delete spam without reading it but they never ask for the inbox. How idiotic is that???
 
My account is the Classic one too - but all that extra carp - YIKES!

And you know what frosts me? They ask me every time I want to delete spam without reading it but they never ask for the inbox. How idiotic is that???

LOL. I never noticed it, but you're probably right.

I suppose they figure if its in your inbox and you delete it, you probably mean it...but if its in the spam box and their filter is wrong (detecting it as spam when its not), then you should get another chance to look at it.

Also, if you delete from your inbox, it goes to the trash...and you can still pull out the item (until its emptied) so that you get another look.

Spam, on the other hand, deletes completely.
 
Good grief - I never knew until just now that there was a trash folder - they never indicate that it has anything in it - so I must have it set to empty automatically because there were only 13 things in there - I was afraid there would be hundreds! LOL!

Learn something new every day, doncha?
 
Thanks Anne.......I didn't want to point out the obvious to Mar.

But Mar really hates Google......the people who make efficient programs like Gmail, Chrome, Android.....;)

And Google Maps, Google Earth (to spy on Bill Henry), Google Documents, Google Calendar, Google Images (where Shayla finds food Porn), etc
 
I know she hates Google Paul, but I think it's an irrational hate not based on anything logical. I'm trying to goad her to come over to the dark side and try it.

Personally, when I hear about the problems people have with Yahoo, I can't figure out why they stick with it. Doesn't seem worth the bother to me.
 
I have a google email account and yahoo. Until the past couple of weeks ago I had never had any problems with the chat feature on Yahoo that Mar has mentioned.

I have never had any other problems with Yahoo either. Don't really see how Gmail is more efficient...in fact get a lot more spam from them than Yahoo even though it does end up in a spam folder I don't understand where it all comes from.

I tried Google chrome but it has started giving me problems recently so have uninstalled it.

All that being said, I don't understand Mar's irrational fear of Google.
The force be with you.
 
I've never tried Yahoo but I know that some of the enewsletters I get have a disclaimer specifically for Yahoo and a couple other providers that if the attached newsletter is corrupted or gone, you need to check your settings. Apparently, it doesn't like attachments even from known parties.

I get less spam with my gmail account than my account through the local place. I think spam has more to do with what sites you have given your address to. Until recently, all the spam I was getting was from places I had purchased things from (Amazon, iTunes, Rodale Press). In the last few weeks, as I've give that account out to more place, I've received some spam from unknown sources. My other account gets all kinds of carp!
 
I've had my yahoo account probably for at least 15 years so I'm probably grandmothered somewhere.

I seldom ever have any problems. And if I do, they only last until the next click. I've never had a problem with attachments.

Once, when they first introduced the "new" mail interface, I couldn't do searches, but now that's fixed, too and has been for a really long time.

While it can have its limitations (like you can't download your mail unless you have a paid account), its free... and to my knowledge there's no limitation on the size of your box.
 
Anne, as I understand it, the free account keeps your mail on the Yahoo server. The paid one allows you to download it to your computer to keep for good and all.

Also, doesn't paying for the account eliminate advertising? I use Yahoo mail on my Sprint phone because Gmail is a pain to download to it. I use my Gmail account for people who can't get my OE Roadrunner mail. Believe it or not, there are some for some reason.
 
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