I used to think there were no real people at Yahoo, just computers. Even AOL
has real people, in India no less, but real people. If you ask an AOL phone
rep you want to speak to somebody who speaks English they become irate and
say, "Engleesh is my number one langusuaged, Hello? Hello? are you there? Guud."
I got tired of the proliferation of porn bots in Yahoo chat, 99% of the
thousands of chatters are advertisements that try to make you believe they are
just normally chatting. If 50 chatters in a room then 47 are bots. The links
they implore you to click on contain all sorts of worm, trojan, spyware,
adware, and malware viruses. I did some research. I went to the money bags of
Yahoo, the stock holders end of the company, bingo, names and pictures of all the
executive officers _http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/bios.cfm_
(http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/bios.cfm) and actual email addresses of corporate
employees, _http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/contact.cfm_
(http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/contact.cfm)
The amazing thing here is the problem of bots could be easily solved by
making all chatters decode a wavy word before entering a room, just like we all
had to do to join vpFREE. I've complained before to the abuse link but have
never received a human response. If you decide to for what ever reason utilize
the emails I found be nice, lol. They might not understand. I worked backstage
at CES Keynote and had to show Yahoo people how to exit the building and
that was after the 3rd day of set up. I asked one of them about the chat room
problems and they freaked out, just like the guides at the Atomic Musuem did
when I mentioned Area 51.
JT, he might implode soon.
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