Yahoo! Mail has a POP bug

I have a message in my Yahoo Mail inbox that I can't download via POP. The Yahoo servers do not correctly terminate the message (the last byte sent is 'I', not the correct CRLF.CRLF terminator), so my POP client (whether Outlook, Mailwasher, telnet) keeps waiting for more data, which never comes. So they time out eventually, though sometimes this can cause my mailbox to go into limbo for about 15 minutes, denying any further access.

I just now figured out exactly where the problem was, and emailed Yahoo support about it. My previous report only indicated that it was a specific message that caused a timeout. The first answer to that was "we've fixed it, try again", but they hadn't. The second answer was "look at this MS KB article", with a link to a KB article about Outlook2002 having problems when your POP mailbox requires both SSL and SPA. Well, Yahoo specifically does NOT require SPA, so that was pointless.

In the meantime, I have to move this message to my trash folder, then download everything else, and move it back (so it isn't deleted). Losing this message would not be the end of the world, it is already outdated and of course I can read it via their web interface. But I'm going to keep pushing them and see if I can at least get a "we will fix this" or "we aren't going to fix this" response.

Disgruntled Ad exec?

I don't think the Special K commercial I just saw said what I heard it say. What I think they probably meant:

"Studies have shown that women who eat breakfast like the Special K breakfast weigh less."

What I heard:

"Studies have shown that women who eat breakfast like the Special K breakfast way less."

Wah

A page I just created got taken down from the Wikpedia. Probably justifiably.

Metapocalypse: A term which could be used to describe the revelation one has when reading the actual definition of the word apocalypse.

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Thursday, August 10 2006
24:59

Got a letter in the mail from my landlords today notifying me of a rent increase. It will take effect September 1, 2006. At the bottom of the letter it says,

This notice is in compliance with the Washington State Residential Landlord/Tenant Act (RCW 59.18.140), which requires 30 days written notice prior to the commencing rent due date or sooner upon mutual consent.

Now, the letter is dated July 24th. The postmark is illegible. My landlords' office is in the same building. Presumably, this letter didn't get any farther away from me than the post office about a mile away. The USPS can be kind of slow sometimes, but I doubt it took them 17 days to deliver a letter 30 feet.

The increase is only 2.4%, so I don't really care. And, I'm leaving soon anyway.

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