Congratulations to Yahoo! Mail

Recently I learned that Yahoo has implemented a new feature:
When one's storage quota is exceeded, they no longer discard
incoming new mail if the quota can be attained by discarding
old mail for which the user has previously clicked Delete!

I hope my explanation is clear enough so you can see how
brilliant this idea is. The key idea, I think, is that the user
doesn't want messages he's Deleted.

This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes
us always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"

If there are any software experts in this group, there is one question
I find interesting. It took Yahoo almost 10 years to develop this
feature. Was this delay because of the need to design and test such
an important and difficult feature, or was the delay used to acquire
patents and licenses for this pushing-the-envelope technology?

Please don't reply to the From address: I got it before Yahoo's
new invention so it quickly became a useless spam trap and I've long
since forgotten the password.

Roger

Yahoo! Mail! Invents! The! Obvious!

RH> This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes us
RH> always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"

No, it's the kind of "invention" that is a simple re-hash of what
"undelete" utilities for MS/PC/DR-DOS were doing in the 1980s.

RH> It took Yahoo almost 10 years to develop this feature. Was
RH> this delay because of the need to design and test such an
RH> important and difficult feature, or was the delay used to
RH> acquire patents and licenses for this pushing-the-envelope
RH> technology?

"pushing-the-envelope technology"!

Purging deleted items to make room for new ones is about as "pushing
the envelope" as the idea of sorting things into date order is.

Re: Yahoo! Mail! Invents! The! Obvious!

In article , Jonathan de
Boyne Pollard wrote:

> RH> This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes us
> RH> always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"
>
> No, it's the kind of "invention" that is a simple re-hash of what
> "undelete" utilities for MS/PC/DR-DOS were doing in the 1980s.

Irony is just completely lost on you, huh?

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Re: Yahoo! Mail! Invents! The! Obvious!

In article ,
John Doherty wrote:
>In article , Jonathan de
>Boyne Pollard wrote:
>
>> RH> This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes us
>> RH> always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"
>>
>> No, it's the kind of "invention" that is a simple re-hash of what
>> "undelete" utilities for MS/PC/DR-DOS were doing in the 1980s.
>
>Irony is just completely lost on you, huh?

And here I thought it was sarcasm :)

mm

Re: Yahoo! Mail! Invents! The! Obvious!

RH> This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes us
RH> always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"

JdeBP> No, it's the kind of "invention" that is a simple re-hash of what
JdeBP> "undelete" utilities for MS/PC/DR-DOS were doing in the 1980s.

JD> Irony is just completely lost on you, huh?

The irony of your not knowing what irony is, isn't, certainly.

You have no evidence that it actually *was* sarcastic. Think on this:
At the same time that puff pieces appear in the trade press extolling
the virtues of Yahoo!'s outsourcing services for mail, along to Usenet
comes an "ordinary user" extolling the virtues of Yahoo!'s brilliant
"user-friendly inventions" in its mail service. Now that you have
thought, are you still so sure that it was sarcasm?

Re: Yahoo! Mail! Invents! The! Obvious!

In article , Jonathan de
Boyne Pollard wrote:

> RH> This is the kind of brilliant user-friendly invention that makes us
> RH> always wonder "Why didn't I think of that?"
>
> JdeBP> No, it's the kind of "invention" that is a simple re-hash of what
> JdeBP> "undelete" utilities for MS/PC/DR-DOS were doing in the 1980s.
>
> JD> Irony is just completely lost on you, huh?
>
> The irony of your not knowing what irony is, isn't, certainly.

Stuff it, Skippy.

> You have no evidence that it actually *was* sarcastic.

I'd say it's pretty frickin' obvious. The subject alone pretty much
says it all.

> Now that you have thought...


Stuff it, Skippy.

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