Yahoo! Edited My Email Contacts !!!

[cui bono]

I got an email from Yahoo! saying the following:

Dear [e-mail]

As part of our continuing effort to provide you with a wonderful Yahoo! Mail experience, we want to make sure the mail you send gets to the friends, family or other contacts you are trying to reach. In support of this commitment, we have removed Yahoo! email addresses from your address book that are no longer valid. All other information remains part of your address book.

Plus, it’s simple to import contacts from Gmail or Facebook in two easy steps. Get started now.

The following email addresses have been removed:
[e-mail]



Yahoo! Customer Care

What the hell??? I realize this is some automated deal but I don't care. Those are MY contacts and they don't need to go searching them for any reason, and definitely shouldn't be editing them.

I'm sure their reason is it keeps people from sending email to bad addresses which ties up the service with the attempts at delivery or whatever, but I still think it's an infringement. I'm so sick of feeling like I have to be dependent on companies that do this sort of thing.

Anyone have any ideas for better email services? I'm planning on changing ISPs anyway, which means I have to change email addies.

[hobbit709]

1. That's a new one on me.

[cui bono]

2. Yeah, seriously. Because they're committed to delivering my email?

So it gets bounced back and I see that it didn't get delivered. No need for them to go snooping around and changing my contacts' info.

[babylonsister]

3. I had the same thing happen but because

the address was no longer valid, I didn't care.

[cui bono]

4. Really? You weren't concerned that your contacts were edited by them? n/t

[babylonsister]

18. No. Apparently they only edited the

non-existent ones. Sorry, I just wasn't that worried about it.

[Drew Richards]

8. And... What if it was not valid because the site server was down 72hrs so they delete you contacts?

I dont freeking need them doing mail checks against my contacts that bs.

[arcane1]

9. They seem to have only done it for yahoo.com email addresses

So they'd know if they were invalid without having to test them in that fashion.

That said, it happened to me too and seemed rather creepy.

What pisses me off most is the "new" Yahoo mail, in which tasks that once took a single click now take 2 or 3.

[TransitJohn]

5. Why didn't you back them up? Seems simple enough. eom

n/t

[cui bono]

10. Huh? That's not the point.

The point is that they edited my contacts. Why should they be poking around in my contacts?

On the side note, how do you know if I have my contacts backed up or not?

[TransitJohn]

12. This is why I use email on my computer. Outlook or Thunderbird are your friend.

You trusted a corporation. You should've read the terms of use. I'm sure it says that they might do what they did. If you had exported and backed them up, you would't need to be pissed off because you didn't read the terms of use.
Edit: to the side note: you just like to rant, then?

[cui bono]

14. Yeah, I've considered Thunderbird, even started the transition

then got bogged down sorting through old emails.

I get what you're saying and I totally agree, but this hasn't happened before so I was taken aback. Hence the question at the end of my OP.

No, I don't just like to rant, where do you get that? You were the one who replied about something I never said, wondering where you decided that I never backed up my contacts and what relevence backing up contacts has to do with this? I have no issue with my contacts other than Yahoo! editing them without my consent.

[noamnety]

6. If you want to restore your deleted contacts

I found this: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?y=PROD_MSNG&page=content&id=SLN387&locale=en_US

It would creep me out too - I'm not discounting that. But for what it's worth, the reason for it is that the email addresses are being recycled to new owners. So deleting the contact prevents you from accidentally sending something personal to an unintended recipient, as well as ensuring the new email address owner isn't being spammed by everyone on the previous owner's list.

I don't know why they have to recycle accounts, but I guess if they're going to, I don't want some random stranger getting stuff from me that I meant for another person.

[aquart]

7. I have email addresses of dead friends and relatives I have chosen not to remove.

I would not appreciate Yahoo's interference.

[PsychoBunny]

11. Don't use Yahoo mail ......

Problem solved. They have too much control, anyway.

I'm going back to snail mail more often. It's more work for the NSA to intercept.

[on point]

13. if you think the product is free, then you are the product... Go to a fee for service provider

[cui bono]

15. Any suggestions on a good one? n/t

[ananda]

16. Re Yahoo contacts...

I learned the hard way to delete all my Yahoo contacts because
of the hack or smam things that would come to my inbox because
somebody was in my contacts.

I keep all my email addy's elsewhere.

[silverweb]

17. I'd be pissed.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I don't use Yahoo, but they'd hear from me. There's a lot of information I keep in my contact list, even if I don't email with that person: birthdays, children's & grandchildren's names, pets' names, etc. If they altered it in any way, I'd be thoroughly pissed and making a lot of noise at them.

[mercuryblues]

19. I don't think yahoo went

into your address book. They announced last month that they were "cleaning house" If an account has not been used in a 12 month period they are deactivating it to free up the user name for other people. If you want to keep your Yahoo addy all you have to do is log into your account.

It is quite possible that when they deactivate an account an email gets sent to the contacts from that account about it being deactivated and deleted.

If you want to change your Yahoo user name now is the time to try to get what you want if it was taken before. If you have e-mails from deceased relatives or friends you want to save, back them up now.

[Octafish]

20. ''It's our way of telling you we're watching what you say and to whom you say it.''

"We'll be looking forward to helping you talk with whom you're authorized to speak soon."