Tests of Yahoo! Mail Confirm the Mediocrity of its Service

[mandy]

A US security vendor claims to have discovered the reason for Yahoo’s alleged poor email delivery – as many as half its email hosts can be “closed” at any one time...

According to trimMail’s Email Battles site, which recently monitored 16 of the company’s advertised email hosts 240 times over a half hour period, only 133 of its probes were answered. Many of the servers were closed and unavailable.

Overall availability ranged from 25 percent to 75 percent over the admittedly short test period. The average availability was 55 percent, with the worst of the servers available only 7 percent of the time...

Yahoo struggles with a reputation for mediocre service in some quarters...

full article: http://www.techworld.com/applications/ne...ewsID=5790

[Anita]

I have a friend that uses Yahoo.  I often receive her e-mails muuuuuuch later after she sends them.