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Jim Bell's Email crash

Thank you for posting this.  You know the old saying, "misery loves company".  This fact should apply additional pressure to Yahoo to fix the problem for 'everybody' including me.  I will cite this material to Yahoo, hopefully to shame them into claiming that I 'abused' my email account.  (They STILL haven't explained what the nature of the 'abuse' was.)

'Somebody' needs to solve the 'password problem'.   Others (but not me) may be strongly tempted to re-use the same password in many sites.  I always thought that was foolish to the highest degree:  It would powerfully motivate people to set up 'honey-pot' websites, if for no other purpose that to collect passwords, figuring (correctly, unfortunately) that a large segment of society would re-use passwords.  Maybe this is already a well-discussed matter,  and I understand that a partial solution includes the use of fingerprint readers, rings, and possibly retina-scans.  

        Jim Bell




On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:00 PM, manning bill <[email protected]> wrote:
 
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/yahoo-detects-mass-hack-attempt-on-yahoo-mail-resets-all-affected-passwords/

its not just jim...

/bill
Neca eos omnes.  Deus suos agnoscet.


On 30January2014Thursday, at 15:19, David <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote:
> 
>> (Raising the question:  Is there a reasonably straightforward mechanism
>> to allow a disgusted user to (easily and automatically) transfer all of
>> his emails from one system to another?  Obviously, email service
>> providers are motivated to try to lock in users, but maybe there's a way
>> to fight this.)
> 
> 
> IMAP.
> 
> I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account:
> 
> Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
> Port: 993
> Username: [email protected]
> SSL/TLS
> 
> 
> Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
> 
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