[CoLoCo] Microsoft to buy Yahoo

Kevin Fries kfries at cctus.com
Wed Feb 6 14:48:24 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:25 -0500, TheZorch wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote: 
> > Well, I'm just testing out my new gmail account that I've lined up
> > just in case I have to abandon my Yahoo email account.... :-)
> Good idea.  I use Gmail and I love it.  I like the fact that they
> offer "free" POP3 and IMAP access to their email accounts while with
> Yahoo you normally have to play for it.

The humor of this situation just hit me.

I only use my Yahoo account when spamming is a possibility.  Given the
amount of spam caused by unpatched Windows boxes, by keeping my Yahoo
account, its soft of like giving it back to the ones that caused it.

LOTHLMAO

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.



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