Here’s some Yahoo Mail stupidity for you:
Every so often I go to check my Yahoo account, just to make sure no one has emailed me there, as it used to be my primary email address. There hasn’t been any real email there in about a year, so I don’t go check all that often anymore. Today I decided to check. I try to log in, and Yahoo informs me my account has been deactivated because I hadn’t logged in for three months, and all my email has been deleted. No biggie. It was all spam anyway. I reactivate the account. I get some other strange error messages. Whatever.
Thing is, while I don’t log in to check my email with that account, I do use it for Yahoo Groups (as well as at Flickr), and I log in about every two days to read email group messages. So I have, in fact, been logging in and using that Yahoo account regularly. All the same, whatever. I am not peeved about lost spam. I wouldn’t even be upset about losing a Yahoo account forever. They are extremely disposable.
On a lark, I try logging into my original Yahoo email account … the one I abandoned years ago. I don’t think I have logged into that account at all for several years now. No problem logging in and all my email is still there. All of it, since I made the account.
Weird, yes?
Two things: What an easy way to clear out the junk mail in my Yahoo account … and what a good thing my old account email was still there. Why? I was able to remind myself, by reading some old emails, of what an asshole (or nutcase) the person I ran into in the frozen food section yesterday was and probably still is. Hmmm, they may read that. Oh well, don’t care. If they’d like a reminder themselves, I will gladly remind them by forwarding emails of an asshole nature to prompt their memory. I can now listen to one of my favorite songs minus the emotional baggage. In fact, I should print out those emails and read them whenever I forget I should be angry with this person, no matter how much we used to care about each other.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to go dye my hair before I lose the nerve to do so. I bought a new color. It’s bright. It’s red. We’ll see how much I hate it afterward. :lol: