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 <bmanning@isi.edu>
   wrote:
   [1]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 <[2]wb8foz@nrk.com> 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: [3]xxx@yahoo.com
   > SSL/TLS
   >
   >
   > Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >

References

   1. http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/yahoo-detects-mass-hack-attempt-on-yahoo-mail-resets-all-affected-passwords/
   2. mailto:wb8foz@nrk.com
   3. mailto:xxx@yahoo.com