Jim Bell's Email crash

[jim bell]

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 at isi.edu> 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 <wb8foz at 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: xxx at yahoo.com
> SSL/TLS
> 
> 
> Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
> 
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