Locked out of Yahoo ?????

Yahoo is trying to extort me into changing my password
into a troublesome one. Has anyone else been so afflicted ??

Yes, three times actually..

Needed to change password every time..

Usually, it demands a new password when there is an error in the entry of address or password. I've been able to enter the old one in both fields and have it accepted, except for the time it required the addition of other than lower case letters.

That was not the case.

I have several computers and I've saved my passwords to automatically log in.

Then, one day for whatever reason I could not access my account.

I tried with another computer with the same result but got a message that I needed to change my password.

I did (through a heavy and time consuming procedure) and could access the account.

This happened already three times.

It looks like there is a big fight in Yahoo,
in that its CEO is conforming it to the look n feel of g mail,
but also harassing its customers against simplicity and ease of passwords.

I avoided that by using only numbers.

After my password is rejected,
I was presented with this notice:

"Yahoo! Account Security has identified a possible risk to your account.

Dear DAVID,
Your account safety is our top priority.
We have detected some unusual activity on your account [I 'm pretty sure that 's a lie.]
and as a result we've temporarily locked it for your protection.
You may unlock your account immediately by changing your password."

Furor Over Yahoo Mail Changes
By NICOLE PERLROTH

It has become the online equivalent of a riot.

Tens of thousands of Yahoo users have taken to online Web forums
to complain about the look and functionality of the new Yahoo Mail,
one of several new Yahoo product updates introduced over the last
15 months at the behest of Yahoo’s new chief executive and former
Googler, Marissa Mayer.

By Wednesday, more than 3,000 people had signed a petition on
Change.org to bring back the old Yahoo mail.
A Facebook group called “Yahoo’s New Mail Fail” had nearly 500 members.
A number of blogs were blasting the changes and tens of thousands
of users had posted to a Yahoo Mail forum to complain about the
second update to Yahoo Mail in less than a year.

“The new Yahoo is so bad it’s tragic,” wrote one frustrated user.
“IF IT AIN’T BROKEN DON’T FIX IT,” wrote another. “It just feels like
Yahoo doesn’t care about users like me: Longtime, loyal, paying customers
who were happily using the Yahoo service,” said another.

With an estimated 275 million users, Yahoo used to be the most
popular e-mail service in the United States, but it has been surpassed
in recent years by Google’s Gmail service and Microsoft’s Hotmail offering.
Yahoo users suspect the new Yahoo mail was Yahoo’s unsuccessful attempt to mimic Gmail.

Yes, I have noticed recent similarities to gmail. I also have a gmail account, and along with the slow speed, those similarities (the nested email chains) are a large part of why I don't used it unless I don't want someone to have access to my normal mail system.

Good lord, if you are going to copy a competitor, you might try to copy the best parts; not the worst.

I have a lot of material dating from the late 1900s in Yahoo email.
I fear that I 'm gonna have to put up the white flag on keeping
an ez password n submit to their extortion.

I have nothing of a confidential nature in my Yahoo email; no secrets.

O, well. I dunno who first said:
"When rape is inevitable, lay back n enjoy it."
I don 't think it was Tex Antoine.

If enuf people complain to Yahoo,
then maybe thay will hold out an olive branch.