[AuckLUG] Xtra-Yahoo Webmail

[Mark Foster]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Bill Keesing wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:47 +1200, Ton van den Broek wrote:
>> We all have probably heard of the "problems" Xtramail is having at the
>> moment. Apparently you have to download a Yahoo application to read your
>> webmail. Is that app working under Linux as well? Has anybody tried it. I
>> haven't, because I'm not interested in a YooHoo ID.
>> If it is not working under Linux (or a Mac), we have another reason to yell
>> at Telecom.
>
> The changes that Xtra makes are very hard to remove. We have an intranet
> at work and a script that we run to set certain settings in the users
> account. Even after removing the Yahoo/Xtra crapware the scrip could not
> change the homepage from the Xtra/Yahoo site to our intranet site so we
> have blocked the site until we can determine exactly how Xtra is
> screwing things up so we can fix it properly.
>
> Anyone remember the infamous Xtra disks that did things like borking the
> TCP stack and broke existing Netscape setups? Looks like they are at it
> again.

I'll keep saying it.

Vote with your feet.

I spent a long time using Xtra as my ISP (I was employed by them) but 
eventually I just got sick of it.  I've switched and never looked back.

Unfortunately, however, I still manage some Xtra-based services for work 
and other reasons - and am presently fighting with Yahoo's stupidly-broken 
registration system (just so that I can try to use Webmail again.)

If you havn't switched provider yet, now seems like a good time...

Mark.