Yahoo! Edited My Email Contacts !!! [View all]

[cui bono]

I got an email from Yahoo! saying the following:

Dear [e-mail]

As part of our continuing effort to provide you with a wonderful Yahoo! Mail experience, we want to make sure the mail you send gets to the friends, family or other contacts you are trying to reach. In support of this commitment, we have removed Yahoo! email addresses from your address book that are no longer valid. All other information remains part of your address book.

Plus, it’s simple to import contacts from Gmail or Facebook in two easy steps. Get started now.

The following email addresses have been removed:
[e-mail]



Yahoo! Customer Care

What the hell??? I realize this is some automated deal but I don't care. Those are MY contacts and they don't need to go searching them for any reason, and definitely shouldn't be editing them.

I'm sure their reason is it keeps people from sending email to bad addresses which ties up the service with the attempts at delivery or whatever, but I still think it's an infringement. I'm so sick of feeling like I have to be dependent on companies that do this sort of thing.

Anyone have any ideas for better email services? I'm planning on changing ISPs anyway, which means I have to change email addies.