can’t Yahoo! keep @yahoo.com, as a common e-mail ID suffix? Agreed, that it allows a abc@yahoo.com and a abc@yahoo.co.in exist, separately, but it drives me out of my MIND!!!
I mean, there are so many people I know, who aren’t sure if they’ve got a .com or a .co.in ID. I’m blogging about this because my English teacher, Ruchi Singh, mailed me some notes to forward to the rest of the class. So, many people came up to me with their e-mail IDs. Quite a few Yahoo!s, actually… And, when I mailed them, I got a barrage of mailer daemon messages.
For the uninitiated, mailer daemon messaged are the weird messages that bounce back at you when you send a mail to an e-mail address which doesn’t exist.
I found a simple workaround for this, though… I simple attempt to create another account on Yahoo! I first try on the global site – to create an account with the ID. If it tells me that the ID is already taken, I know that that’s the right ID. If I can create an account on the global site, before sending the mail with a co.in extension, I double check by attempting to create an account on the Yahoo! India website. Simple!
By the way, I like bananas…
April 27, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Exactly.This is really irritating.There’s another method to check the ID.Ankur told me once that you can check the ads on the profile page-profiles.yahoo.com/usename
April 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm
or send the mail to both
April 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Silly way to check. Go to http://profiles.yahoo.com/username. Unlike Naman said, the ‘ad’ way won’t work, because some smart ass actually listened to my feedback on this privacy loophole, and removed it. So here’s the new way:
1. Open that profile page.
2. Go to the bottom of the page. Hover your mouse over the ‘Privacy Policy’ link. If it’s privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/in then it’s an India ID, /uk is .co.uk – you get the idea. For .com IDs though, it’ll be something like us.ard.yahoo.com/GiBberIsH