So as most people who use it will have noticed, Yahoo has upgraded their email services. Many see this as a preemptive strike to keep some of their fed up users from switching when the Gmail animal comes their way - I'd tend to agree. It actually is pretty good - I mean, 100MB *is* a spare bit of space... and if you already have all your addresses, phone numbers, calendar, etc. etc. all set up I can see many folks just not wanting to bother with the switch to Gmail...
Except my Yahoo mail wasn't working all morning today. Down completely. 404 error at mail.yahoo.com.
Not sure where the problem was, but I had like 5 or 6 relatively critical messages to go out this morning... which I thus had to send using my (eek!) hotmail account - after reactivating from lack of use, of course.
sheesh... isn't email supposed to be figured out by now? Why do I have limitations on the amount I can store? Why do I have max attachment file sizes? Why do I have to pay extra to have it forwarded somewhere or to use POP3 to download to Outlook? AND WHY DOESN'T IT WORK ALL THE TIME!
It's like the phone company not realizing that charging people for local service just pisses them off and gives them another reason to switch the second an alternative becomes available... Built up consumer frustration is a dangerous thing for business, just ask MLB - or the NHL next year - the Canadian cellphone industry when the CRTC FINALLY legislates number portability...
Gmail... are you listening? I promise my complete devotion AND 100% of my web searching if you can satisfy me!
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