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Rogers Yahoo! Mail is upgrading: What it means for you.

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Mike

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Sep 14, 2011, 5:20:11 PM9/14/11
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Rec'd today:

Rogers Yahoo!
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear USER ,

We appreciate that you have been with Rogers Yahoo! Mail for the past 9
years. We are looking forward to bringing you an even faster, safer,
easier-to-use Rogers Yahoo! Mail very soon.

If you’ve already upgraded to the latest Rogers Yahoo! Mail, thank you.

If not, in about a month from the date of this email, when you sign in
to your Rogers Yahoo! Mail account, we will ask you to upgrade to the
newest version of Rogers Yahoo! Mail. But you don't have to wait. You
can have the newest Rogers Yahoo! Mail today.

You can upgrade now to the newest Rogers Yahoo! Mail if your browser is
Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 4, or Chrome 5, or newer.


Upgrade Now

If you do not have one of these browsers, update your browser (it's fast
and free) and then return to this email and click the Upgrade Now button.

If you only access Rogers Yahoo! Mail on your mobile device, tablet or
via POP, it is critical that you visit rogers.overview.mail.yahoo.com on
your computer to see important information about the upgrade, then
review and agree to the new Communication Terms of Service and Privacy
Policy.


What You Can Look Forward To When You Upgrade

Faster email
The latest Rogers Yahoo! Mail spam-protection technology
Easier-to-use design
Unlimited email storage so that you can keep everything you want

When you upgrade to the newest version of Rogers Yahoo! Mail, everything
in your account (messages, folders, contacts, etc.) will be there.

Learn more about the newest version of Rogers Yahoo! Mail.


Your Alternatives

If you're not ready to upgrade now, we recommend that you upgrade soon.
You may access your current version of Rogers Yahoo! Mail, but we
strongly encourage you to either upgrade to the newest version of Rogers
Yahoo! Mail or review Rogers Yahoo! Mail Help for other options.

Thank You for Being A Loyal Rogers Yahoo! Mail User
We hope you enjoy the newest version of Rogers Yahoo! Mail.

Rogers Yahoo! Mail Team


Pretty much removing SMTP/POP mail access, and forcing use of webmail

Marc Bissonnette

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Sep 14, 2011, 5:27:58 PM9/14/11
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Mike <no...@none.invalid> had this epiphany to share:
news:j4r5pu$trp$2...@speranza.aioe.org:
... And all of Anonymous had a collective orgasm and turned their gazes
north.

If you value your mail, absolutely *none* of it should be going through
Rogers systems if POP mail is being shut down.




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Tony

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Sep 14, 2011, 7:29:36 PM9/14/11
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Anything is better than bell's hotmail which is worst than *free*.
--
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Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city

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manners

Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day on
the job for potty mouth,

Bur-ring, i'll get this one: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM JERK!!? We're here to help you
dickweed, ok, ok give the power cord the jiggily piggily wiggily all the while
pushing the power button repeatedly now take everything out of your computer
except the power supply and *one* stick of ram. Ok get the next sucker on the
phone.

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I hate them both, With useless bogus bullshit you need at least *three* fulltime
jobs to afford either one of them

I'm a fulltime text *only* man on usenet now. The rest of the world downloads
the binary files not me i can't afford thousands of dollars a month

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Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday

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Theodore Bungee-Smythe

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Sep 16, 2011, 12:04:17 PM9/16/11
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I call shenanigans.

When something arrives from a "trusted" source, they should
at least know my name and not address me as "Dear USER".
Those stupid fake bank "security" updates do that - check
the message source and you may find that the link to login
and update your Rogers account actually goes to a server in
Argentina or somewhere.
I find anything to do with Rogers and/or Yahoo repellant, so
I'm not going to go to their real website (not using any
links from that email) and find out if this is legit ... but
you should!

Theodore Bungee-Smythe



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Mike

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Sep 16, 2011, 3:30:46 PM9/16/11
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On 16/09/2011 12:04 PM, Theodore Bungee-Smythe wrote:
> I call shenanigans.
>
> When something arrives from a "trusted" source, they should
> at least know my name and not address me as "Dear USER".
> Those stupid fake bank "security" updates do that - check
> the message source and you may find that the link to login
> and update your Rogers account actually goes to a server in
> Argentina or somewhere.
> I find anything to do with Rogers and/or Yahoo repellant, so
> I'm not going to go to their real website (not using any
> links from that email) and find out if this is legit ... but
> you should!
>
> Theodore Bungee-Smythe
>
It's a real Rogers e-mail, I changed it the Dear User, as I rather not
post my real name on usenet.



Geoffrey Welsh

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Sep 16, 2011, 3:46:33 PM9/16/11
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Theodore Bungee-Smythe wrote:
> When something arrives from a "trusted" source, they should
> at least know my name and not address me as "Dear USER".
> Those stupid fake bank "security" updates do that - check
> the message source and you may find that the link to login
> and update your Rogers account actually goes to a server in
> Argentina or somewhere.

Good point. I always set my email client to read all email in plain text,
which means that almost everybody's email is ugly and some of it is
downright unreadable before I click on "alright, show me THIS one in
HTML"... but the links where it displays one URL but sends the user to
another are at least visible. Admittedly, in a graphics-rich message that
mismatch may be hard to find...


Theodore Bungee-Smythe

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Sep 19, 2011, 4:25:57 PM9/19/11
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"Mike" <no...@none.invalid> wrote in message
news:j5084m$h2k$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

> On 16/09/2011 12:04 PM, Theodore Bungee-Smythe wrote:
>> blah blah etc

>> links from that email) and find out if this is legit ...
>> but
>> you should!
>>
>> Theodore Bungee-Smythe
>>
> It's a real Rogers e-mail, I changed it the Dear User, as
> I rather not post my real name on usenet.
>

That's a great idea. I should try that.

Scott Bungee-Smythe

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