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I was a happy rocketmail user a long long time ago. Then Yahoo bought them out and made everyone change over to yahoo.com addresses... Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

My first web email address - circa 1996? - was at rocketmail.com. A few years later Yahoo!!1! swallowed them and I lost the rocketmail address (I think I got the same word at yahoo dot com but gave up on it). I wonder if I can get it back?

Ymail, on the other hand, seems like a blatant attempt to keep up with Google Mail. I quote gmail.com rather than googlemail.com, but my address is valid on both.

It sounds like Yaho0!!!!! are taking a slightly different approach and allowing somebody@yahoo.com to be a different person than somebody@ymail.com - sounds a bit dodgy to me, confusion will abound.

Not to mention that people with existing yahoo.com addresses will probably be quick to grab their equivalents - just like when a new TLD is released, with lots of arsey gumpf about how it will open up more addresses - all that really happens is companies splurge out even more on protecting their existing brand.

So they're using domains they bought ages ago? Not exactly expanding service now is it?

Wow, rocketmail was my first account YEARS ago (must be close to 11-12), and then yahoo bought them out ages ago. They were nice enough to keep the domain active, but i log in as "username.rm"

I've still got my old Rocketmail address, same setup as Ben with the username.rm login - pity I stopped using it as Yahoo!s service was pants compared to rocketmails. I check it occasionally and use it as an archive now.

Guess I got me coat when it comes to Yahoo! ages ago.........

My god, I used to have a rocketmail address years ago, until Yahoo took it over. I then stopped using it as I didn't like the GUI.

Paris: As her online activities cause expansion for web users too.

My favourite email address was with yeehaa.com. I was deeply hurt when they shut down.

I had a rocketmail from years ago, converted into a Yahoo.com email address. Then one day in 2000 I got a note from Yahoo that my account was suspended for "TOS Violations". That's all, no explanation, nothing. Repeated emails to the company: nothing. Phone calls: nothing. Even tried dropping in to the office in South Bay: nothing. Wrote letters to the board members, including the useless Yang and Filo: nothing. All my Yahoo! Points! deleted, all my emails, notes, everything. Yahoo "support" Since then I have tried, every few years, to re-register that email address: no luck, always "not allowed". Screw you Yahoo, your customer service is a pathetic joke, you obviously care less for your members than I do for my arse lint.

They are like condoms just not as sticky after you are done with them.

Just like Paris....

when I had a yahoo account ... then I realised it was rubbish and stuck with my hotmail account {of almighty win}

now I want to abuse freecycle to get stuff to sell on ebay and I need a yahoo account, so I went to get my old one back and they said "have you ever bought anything with that yahoo account via credit card?"

apparently the only way to recover an account is to have handed over your money, sounds dead free to me.

so now I can't sell stuff I get for free :(

anyone else got any getrichquick schemes ? :P