Why not just get your own domain? For about $10/yr or so, you can set
   up your DNS/MX records to use any provider you want & fw your yahoo
   mail  (Stay away from GoDaddy.)
   You should have a local backup of your own emails, is what Moon Jones
   was trying to say in a rude way.  Easily done with thunderbird.
   Would be happy to help you set it up or advise if you need.


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   On Jan 30, 2014 2:10 PM, jim bell <jamesdbell9@yahoo.com> wrote:

   By Moon Jones:
   >Actually the idiot is someone who just does not back up important
   data.
   >A double idiot I see. I guess that's the trouble with large providers:
   >they let anybody in. Hence the bad publicity.
    I assume Yahoo DOES 'back up important data'.  The problem here is
   different:  The Yahoo computer system probably (falsely) figured that
   there was suspicious activity going on.  (It probably saw my logon
   Sunday, while I was still logged on in another window, as being
   suspicious).  I did not anticipate that my doing what I did was going
   to be a problem.  The big problem is that the Yahoo computer system
   precipitately reacted, quite improperly, by not merely suspending the
   account, but by actually deleting the entire account!   This is the
   computer equivalent of 'insanity'.
   I have heard it said that computer features that are infrequently (or
   even rarely) used do not tend to be perfected.  ("Software rot"; see
   [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot   )   Since only rarely
   would this kind of situation occur, a bug in the system would tend not
   to be quickly found.
   Also, you are wrong for a second reason.  Yahoo (or any other email
   provider) could easily set up their system to keep a backup of the
   email data on the user's computer.  While that data, too, would be
   vulnerable to various events, the probability that BOTH the
   'cloud'-kept data AND the user-computer-kept data becoming unavailable
   simultaneously should be exceedingly low.  Probably one of the reasons
   Yahoo doesn't take this precaution is that they are trying to lock-in
   users to their system.  If they gave a user's computer a copy of the
   entire content of the user's data, it would be too easy (for Yahoo's
   purposes) for the user to transfer his data to another email system:
   Competing email systems would be motivated to write software to adopt
   such data into a new account.
   Even so, I have done a Google search for an email-account transfer
   service.  (Turns out they exist!).  What I'd really like to do is to
   obtain a new email address, but simultaneously maintain 'jamesdbell8'
   as one email address, instructing yahoo to automatically transfer any
   incoming mail to a second address.  This feature would greatly ease the
   difficulty of transferring to a different email account.
          Jim Bell
   On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:02 PM, Moon Jones
   <mjones@pencil.allmail.net> wrote:
   Actually the idiot is someone who just does not back up important data.
   A double idiot I see. I guess that's the trouble with large providers:
   they let anybody in. Hence the bad publicity.
   On Thu, Jan 30, 2014, at 18:44, jim bell wrote:
   > My email provider, the idiots at Yahoo.com, crashed my email address
   > account '[2]jamesdbell8@yahoo.com' last Sunday.   I have lost my
   email
   > addresses, as well as all emails.  For now, I will have to operate on
   a
   > new email address, '[3]jamesdbell9@yahoo.com'.   At this point, Yahoo
   is my
   > #1 enemy, and I expect them to be "The first against the wall when
   the
   > revolution comes".
   >          Jim Bell

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   2. mailto:jamesdbell8@yahoo.com
   3. mailto:jamesdbell9@yahoo.com