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From bad to worse - YahooMail

If the saga of YahooMail's problems were written as a work of fiction, it would be dismissed as "too far fetched".

Unfortunately, it's not a work of fiction and the problems continue, seemingly without end.

Yesterday morning I went to check my YahooMail account and found myself unable to log in -- attempts at doing so simply resulting in an endless redirection loop that eventually my browser gave up on and threw an error page.

A quick check online showed that this was a problem which seemed to affect Sky Broadband in the UK which also outsources its email to Yahoo as well.

What the?

I wonder how long before everyone who is repeatedly hit by YahooMail's ongoing issues calls "enough".

I find myself writing about this fiasco far too many times and I'd love to stop but almost every day I see local media reports about YahooMail problems.

Then there are the growing number of international reports which clearly indicate that there are some very serious issues with YahooMail.

Sadly, I feel that Ms Mayer may well be well out of her depth on this one.

Perhaps she ought not have knocked all that teleworking on the head after all.

It is now only a matter of time before the joke that YahooMail has become creates so much anti-Yahoo backlash that the company's other services are affected.

Email has become a communications vector that is probably even more important to most people than voice calling via telephone. Thanks to the general reliability of email, most people tend to take it for granted -- however, when a major outage occurs, few of us can feel happy about the "disconnect" that results, even if it's only for a few brief hours.

And now I'm left wondering -- exactly what *do* Yahoo have to offer Net users?

Their mail is stuffed, their search engine has long-ago been eclipsed by Google and their crappy homepage service (as used by Xtra) is a sad excuse for a real news site.

Marissa, start planning for your retirement *now* -- it may be closer than you think!

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