Why is my account inactive?
Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because:
- You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months.
I never used Yahoo! Search regularly. I was an AltaVista user when it was still altavista.digital.com, until I found Google sometime in 1997 and no longer had to dig through pages of search results.
I never really used Y! mail. It was always too slow, and too annoying. It has these large advertisements, you see, which not only take up screen real-estate but network bandwidth. And until this company, POP3 and IMAP4 were not forbidden protocols, so I never used web-based mail at all. But that’s not true anymore
I used Y! Maps, because it wasn’t as annoying as MapQuest or Expedia. But I don’t anymore.
I used Y! Groups, because that’s where the people were, even though it has the same problems with advertising that all of the Yahoo! sites have. But I never read them anymore.
I used Y! Messenger, because some of my friends have Y! accounts, until gaim became good enough. The Y! product was just too annoying. My friends are still there, but I’m not anymore.
The Y! developers come up with some neat stuff, and their bosses buy some neat stuff, but their marketing team must think we have all day to download their advertisements.
Meanwhile, they have this Pipes thing. It looks interesting, if your data is exposed to the Web.