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how AT&T, Yahoo, or Someone Ruined My Life

9/4/2020

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​​​TROUBLE WITH E-MAIL
I may be exaggerating just a little, but my problems with e-mail have been more than just stressful. They have managed to affect my credit score, which is no small thing.

How is that possible? Easy. I never received a couple of on-line billings and, thus, made a couple of late payments. Voilá! A drop of 120 points. Ouch!
All Cartoons below by Ron Lieberman.

THE CULPRIT
I’m not even sure who is responsible – AT&T, Yahoo, or maybe the Celestial Computer Controller in the iClouds – but I had been experienced a good relationship with my e-mail partner punkyc@pacbell.net for more than twenty years.

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Sure, we had our ups and downs, as most couples do, but all in all we were compatible and never had disagreements we couldn’t solve. Then the mysterious someone intervened.

SABATOGE
All at once ​​punkyc could no longer send an e-mail. She tried but the message kept coming back with a message that it could not be transmitted because it looked like spam. What?
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                                       I could forward, but not send. 
Well, darn. That was inconvenient!

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Then, after failing to receive a lot of e-mail that people had sent and asked me about, I discovered almost everything new was going directly to Trash. Not everything, mind you. In order to trick me, some communications actually made it to my in-box so I thought I was getting all of it.
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Rats! Now I had to check the in-basket and the trash basket.

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At that point, I realized I was being sabotaged by the AT&T or PacBell or Yahoo or whomever, because they no longer wanted to handle personal accounts – that’s according to my personal spy at AT&T.
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You would think common courtesy (which isn’t so common, I guess) would demand they send me a “dear John” letter ending it all. But I received not a word of warning.

​Heartbroken, but understanding I was destined to be separated from my beloved companion punkyc, I created a g-mail account on the sly and started transferring things I wanted -- sort of like taking some of your most important possessions out of your boyfriend’s apartment before you give him the bad news.

Alas, I didn’t take the impending danger seriously enough. After all, I still received mail and could access the account, so I took my time and continued my relationship with punkyc.
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​​​​BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
The breakup was disastrous and unexpected. I’d been finding ways to sign-in on the Yahoo account for weeks and thought l had everything under control. Pride goeth before a fall.

One day in June, Yahoo refused my password. There had been no change in either e-mail address or password, but I was out on my keester. No entry. No more e-mail. 

Desperate, I tried every password I’d ever used with Yahoo. No dice. Together, Yahoo and punkyc had rejected me.

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CHANGING YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS EVEN HARDER TO DO
This has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my life, and I’m not kidding here.

Every account I have from my bank, to Pay Pal, to social media, shopping, ad infinitum is set up using punkyc. Trying to get them changed to my new e-mail address has been a nightmare. For some reason, none of them will accept the password I’ve used for lo these many years.

N O N E  O F  T H E M  ! !  [I apologize for raising my voice.]

But luckily so, in one respect!

“Why?” you gasp, trying to imagine the reason.

“Because,” I answer, “as soon as I had business cards printed up and let a lot of people know the new g-mail address, somehow I screwed that up and had to settle for a modified version.”

My newest and current e-mail address is this:    rannsiracusa3@gmail.com

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Worst of all, only part of contact list transferred over to the g-mail. I’m not sure how I’m going to get everyone back into a Google address book. Alas, I don’t have 3,000 memorized and I can’t contact you to tell you I have a new g-mail address, because I no longer have yours.

If you still want to communicate and don’t mind, drop me an e-mail with your addy.

In the mean time, I still have all my accounts to struggle with. Whether or not I succeed in straightening things out, my life is ruined and will never be the same.

image credits: All Cartoons by Ron Lieberman.


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