On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> >>> In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not >>> work. >> >> Can you elaborate on that? Is it blocked or badly translated or >> what? > > Yahoo is blocked here. Totally fed up with the constant outflow of spam > from Yahoo servers. Abuse reports are largely ignored or met with > disbelief that the spam could have possibly originated from their > servers. So yes, "technically defective" works for me. > Thanks - I rarely/never send outbound mail from my ymail account so that shouldn't be a problem for my use. I just keep it to have a place where I'll notice things like bank notifications, etc. - with a separate phone app to make it obvious. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com