yahoo clubs no longer free??... [and yahoo angst forum]

[matt the fiddler]

For those of you who are interested in the future of Yahoo Groups , it appears they are considering changing their service and perhaps starting to charge for it.
An article there said they did the same thing to Yahoo Personals a bit ago. they said that they apparently did the entire switch from free to paid in about 14 days... and it started with a poll like was out yesterday.
Don't know if the pattern will hold, but the article also said that this new CEO they've got has it as his primary goal to drastically reduce all of the free services since advertising revenues have gone down the toilet and Yahoo is not making money.... one place said they may charge $3.00 a month for access to the clubs. As i get any new info, or speculation- it will be up here. Again NONE of this is confirmed officially, and it is buried deep [as yahoo dosn't want people to know about it just yet] - just keep your ears peeled. there is pretty good reason to think this is true- if there wasn't i woldn't have posted it

this is one reason we opted to do the switch away form yahoo last month. we have been expecting that things like this were going to start happening, and it was one of the nig items that puched us into considering the new forum, even though a lot of people liked the old one.

matt the fiddler

[matt the fiddler]

oh yea- this is what happend the last time a major company/ government changed something that was good and perfect the way it was

EuroEnglish

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, s will be used instead of the soft c. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard c will be replaced with k. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome ph will be replaced by f. This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent es in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing th by z and W by V. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou, and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.....
[when you are off topic, low on sleep, in college, and have homework to do.... you need a bit of farce to cheer things up!]
matt

[jaceyhomen]

Fine with me...maybe the service will improve. I never could figure out how to become a Real Live Member anyway. I'd fill out yahoo's form and await a supposed e-mail telling me how be become a member. It never came. I'd e-mail them for help. No reply. Phooey on 'em.

[matt the fiddler]

yea- yahoo! just deleted all teh messages from the nickelcreekfan club- 2,000 some messages gone... sob.

and addy to write and complain to. ...lol

chip, did you get the hack working that recorded before the deletion?

[matt the fiddler]

yet another way yahoo is cutting back the free services...

Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers.

If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe [$29.99.] to our improved package that allows you to:

Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail.
Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address!
Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit.
Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.*

[matt the fiddler]

heads up- yahoo is continuing it's reign of terror!
In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its
users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to
indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations
through spam, snail mail and telephone.

Yahoo has also added users' home addresses and phone numbers to
their Yahoo ID profiles.

if you want to remain annmo. go change your info in your yahoo profile!!!!!