Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Yahoo Geo Cities: Too Risky To Use! User Beware!

...[c]2005 by Richard L Zorek......12.27.05.....
I had a free website account a Geocities for many years. The I.D. was itea64050. It was originally established to deal with issues relating to the Independence Transportation Employees Association, a "wanna-be-union" that established its presence with the Independence School District school bus drivers. It also had some other school bus information. I was slowly using it less and less, but was still using it periodically. One day, I discovered the guest book disappeared and then found out that what was left was gone. I wrote them after I sifted through the links forever a long time trying to find a place to contact them. I listed this violation The violation is .........directed toward
Geocities for not making a better way to communicate with
you. I had pages at "itea64050" (yahoo ID) and they have
disappeared. WHY??????
. Sean from Yahoo! Customer Care
wrote this back (standard response I presume):
Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms
of Service (TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your
Yahoo! GeoCities account.
Yada yada yada. But no explanation as to what was violated. So I wrote back: Looks like I need an attorney to figure out what your wrote here. You
specify a violation took place, but don't have any clue what it is. What
was it??? I do not believe there was one after 5 years.
This time Kirk from Yahoo! Customer service sent me the exact same email that Sean did. Still no explanation. So, getting frustrated, I wrote back again:
Yada yada yada. You are telling me it was violated. WHAT was
violated???? WHAT? Ads in "w-h-a-t"? Do you understand?? "WHAT" was
violated. You have given me nothing except the TOS, which I already
read. Let me know, I am getting ready to cancel all the Yahoo stuff
because you apparently can't read. I can read fine I have read your
TOS.
You haven't told me how I VIOLATED your TOS?? Do you understand? Let me
write it real slow for you: w-h-a-t d-i-d I v-i-o-l-a-t-e??????


I could write you a letter and tell you I think your review system is
crazy, but unless I let you know what make me think you are crazy, you
won't know will you?
. That should be clear. Well so, now I get an email from Justin at yahoo! customer service which started out different:
You are welcome to establish a new account with Yahoo! and Yahoo!
GeoCities at any time, provided that your use complies with our Terms
of
Service.
I became convinced they have no explanation and I have no idea why they did it after five years. So, my suggestion to anyone who doesn't want to lose information without a reason.........or even with one, I guess, is to not uses Geocities. It's much too risky. And "customer service doesn't listen, or cant read anyway....Geo Cities Warning.

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