Yahoo is now recycling handles

Sun Sep 8 22:30:18 UTC 2013

----- Original Message -----
> From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul at marrowbones.com>
> To: "nanog at nanog.org list" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The appropriate party to inform would be the FBI ... The word fraud comes 
> to mind, and millions of 50 centses puts company officers in prison for a long 
> long long time.
> 
> The charges did indeed expire rather than get posted. None of which excuses 
> Yahoo!'s complete lack of customer support (and broken charge system), but 
> at least there's that.
> 

So, Yahoo *actually* had a working cust-support at some point?

I obviously missed that boat.

I have had three perfectly valid handles reclaimed in the last three weeks ( my yahoo addr.book is tiny!)

I just let the holders of said handles know the implications of what happened and asked they let everyone else know NOT to use said handle at yahoo
./Randy