RE: Yahoo Groups login Woes...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> first off, forget any prospect of trying to recover your ID
> details from
> Yahoo's interminable "mail me my password" service, as if
you
> have forgotten
> both your Yahoo ID *and* your password, you'll go round in
> circles for hours
> before giving up in disgust. - Just bite the bullet and sign
> up again from
> scratch.

Been there ... Had to do that only last week!

> the hardest part of this will be trying to find a Yahoo ID
> name that isn't
> already taken. - forget any prospect of trying to get an ID
> that is even
> close to being meaningful (Unless your name is "Tarquin
> fin-tin-lim-bim-bim-bim-bim-bim-bustop-f'tang-f'tang-ole-biscu
> it-barrel"
> that is). I tried dozens of seemingly random phrases as ID's
> including: "Ihateyahoo" "Yahoosucks"
> "comeandgetitlikeabitchfunkysexmachine"
> "blowmeyoubitch"
> "forfucksake"
> as well as every conceivable variation of my name, and my
> street name, my
> Wife's name, my favoutite food, my inside leg measurement, -
> you get the
> picture...
>
> As you go round the mill trying to find one, Yahoo will offer
> you variations
> of what you've entered that are available, - usually just by
> tacking a bunch
> of numbers on the end... take my advice, - just take one of the Yahoo
> sugested alternatives...

When I registered with egroups originally my username was my email
address ... However yahoo changed it when they took over. There *SHOULD*
be no reason not to allow you to use your email address as your
username!

> Use the *SAME* e-mail address as the primary address that you
> previously
> used for your "lost" ID. - wait for the confirmation email
to
> arrive at that
> mailbox, and validate it. (it took about an hour for the
> confirmation email
> to get to me from Yahoo).

It took *TEN HOURS* for me to receive my confirmation email. (Actually
"emails" as I had clicked "send me a confirmation
email" several times!)

Phil