OK now I am REALLY , REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY ,REALLY POed.
Yahoo will NOT answer my emails. The short version. I've had my yahoo
ID since 1999 "Investorstox". Yahoo ceased to authenticate my ID and
p/w on July 3,2002. Until that date, I have had ZERO problems logging
into yahoo messenger or yahoo (java) chat. YES, I did EVERYTHING
yahoo' (just wonderful) computer generated emails told me to do. I am
very "techy" I know how to properly enter my ID and p/w. I went  so
far as to delete everything from yahoo, INCLUDING editing the
registry. I UNinstalled yahoo chat, yahoo messenger, oh about a
zillion times. I was thinking it was MY computer, WRONG, it is yahoo'
computer. How did I test this? I went to my brothers home, same
problem, DIFFERENT computer. I am still wondering if they trained
another class of chimpanzees to run the system over at yahoo. I am
waiting for a human being to maybe, just maybe send me an email with
SOMETHING, like yeah, we have a problem, we wiped out 500,000 profiles
on an upgrade on July 3, 2002. Nah!, Mental note to self, NEVER buy
any more YHOO stock, ever again. I can login and play yahoo games,
yahoo auctions, edit my yahoo, and just about every yahoo feature. I
CANNOT login to yahoo messenger or get yahoo (java) chat to load. This
computer is virus checked, again, nothing there. I ran SFC, files are
fine, Scandisk, nothing there either. Ran DocWatson, fine again. Ran
the disk utility for errors, no errors found. Does anyone think that
they can get a real live, (living) human being response from yahoo? Or
do you think that yahoo has grown so big as they really don't care
about the people who were on chat when it also was in the beta stage?

Is this yahoo account a free one?

-AI

Sure is free, alien. It's not my end, something went amiss at yahoo,
thousands and thousands of yahoo IDs were wiped out. It's getting
hokeier by the day, and no one at yahoo has any answers, except change
your p/w, done that, been there.
Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-uninstalled then
re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-installed
yahoo messenger as told by the computer-generated emails (aren't they
just wonderful?) that is YOUR stupidity that you CANNOT enter the SAME
password and ID that you've had for 4 years, godforbid that (omg)
yahoo made a mistake, yahoo NEVER makes mistakes. MENTAL NOTE to self-
SELL my last 100 shares of that dog stock YHOO.

Well, the point I was making was,
'you get what you pay for'.

I don't know many things you can
do to change the situation... yell
at someone from Yahoo about their
FREE service? 

Do you want us to find you a human
at Yahoo?

I'll drive there and knock on their
door if you pay for the gas.

You can call them at this number
maybe? Probably not on a saturday.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/address/

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Yahoo! - Address and Phone Number 
Street Address Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94089 
Phone (408) 349-3300 
Fax (408) 349-3301 
Office Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST 
 
Directions

From San Jose: 
•  Take 101 North and exit on Mathilda Avenue. 
•  Turn right on Mathilda and continue to First Avenue (also marked as
Bordeaux on the right).
•  Make a left on First Avenue. 
•  Make first right into Yahoo! parking lot. Building D (701) is the
first building on the right side.
•  The lobby entrance faces the courtyard. 


From San Francisco: 
•  Take 101 South and exit onto 237 east (Alviso/Milpitas exit). 
•  Merge onto 237 and exit immediately toward Mathilda Avenue. 
•  Turn left onto Mathilda Avenue and continue to First Avenue (also
marked as Bordeaux on the right).
•  Make a left on First Avenue. 
•  Make first right into Yahoo! parking lot. Building D (701) is the
first building on the right side.
•  The lobby entrance faces the courtyard. 


(If you miss the 237 exit off 101 South, continue to Lawrence
Expressway North exit. Turn right and continue on Lawrence Expressway
North, which turns into Caribbean Way. First Avenue is a few miles up
on the right side.)

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I can call them on Monday if you like...
I probably won't be quite as angry as
you might want me to be tho.

-AI

Well, I had a HotMail account for years, and now it gets almost 100
junk mails in the inbox (and more in the 'bulkmail') each day, and and
so I got a new email address at HotMail and told folk what it is.
Sorted. Still free. Still relatively pleased.

Anything that is free, treat with suspicion. Backup anything
important, because tomorrow they might not be there. But another free
service will replace them. Backup, stay with, change to the new. It's
a cycle, it's bloody good value, it's a few keystrokes.

alien, are there any surplus US Army Tanks for sale on Ebay, maybe
that'll get their attention, JUST KIDDING. Anyway, google I think
alienintelligence-ga deserves the five bucks, he's right, as a
shareholder of Yahoo, Inc, I can be extremely angry if I get a "real"
person at Yahoo HQ. Although I am still keeping my hunch there are a
few chimps in the building, after all what was that order that I saw
for 1000 lbs of bananas ;) ?

alien, I am laughing too hard. Hi, this is so-and-so from google
answers, yes, I am here to find out why you won't authenticate mr.
________ yahoo ID. Jeeze, they'd be laughing their butts off. Or they
would wisk you away to the depths of the yahoo caverns with the
chimpanzees and you'd be AWOL from google answers, hmmm I think I see
a TV series. Yeah, yeah, this is getting interesting. Man disappears
after entering Yahoo HQ, asking questions about yahoo chat. Last seen
answering questions on google answers. :)

As a test, I tried to create a new Yahoo account with the username
"Investorstox." I was told that a user by that name exists, which
would seem to indicate that your account has not actually been
deleted. This does not solve your problem, but it may provide a bit of
solace.

On a lighter note, regarding the interesting question of whether Yahoo
is being run by chimpanzees or by humans, perhaps we might reasonably
wonder whether the answer may lie somewhere between the two species. I
speculate that the place is operated by "Yahoos" -- see second
illustration on this page:

http://www.fmarion.edu/~drjohnson/APR21.HTM

OK take a look at this link
http://search.profiles.yahoo.com/interests?.kw=InvestorStox&.oc=t&.sb=1&SEARCH=Find+People
  jeeze, I am logged in, but I am not there, this sounds like an
episode for The Twilight Zone. At the Yahoo chat ahead... I emailed
yahoo inc, that page and ask for a courtesy response, not one of their
usual computer generated responses. Anyone have any contacts that
work/worked for yahoo inc, please leave a comment. If any tech persons
have any knowledge as to what "occurred" at Yahoo chat on July 3,
2002, please leave a comment. If invaders from another star system
have indeed landed and taken over Yahoo inc, look guys I really am
sorry about that crack about the 3 toed sloth remark :)

Now I understand, all of this - http://www.himonkey.net/yahoo/ - makes
sense (see especially http://www.himonkey.net/yahoo/y6.html and
http://www.himonkey.net/yahoo/y10.html).

guru, that was very, very funny, thankz, I needed that. btw, the
rumors abound that yahoo chat will soon be a pay-for-chat service,
dunno how much, but as the rate of the .com implosion reaches epidemic
proportions, who knows? Anyway, I do not expect a reply from a live
tech person from yahoo inc. They've become too big, and with a
gazillion chatters, why would they even attempt to try to solve my
itty-bitty problem. It's not like I have not patronized their
advertisers, (i have) it's not like I have not bought anything from
yahoo auctions, (i have) and finally, so they wiped out a few thousand
profiles and everyone had to create all-new ones, tsk, tsk, read the
fine print on the terms of the service agreement. OK when is the next
shareholders meeting for Yahoo, this time I think I need to make sure
that I am attending it.

Have you tried to log in with all lower case like: "investorstox"?

stockzguy....

I found your profile, alive & well, at:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/stockzguy

I also found my two (2) profiles alive & well, in the same manner....
though I had to log in on the webpages in order to view your profile or mine...
...and that worked just fine...with my usual usernames/PWs....

When I tried to login to Yahoo Chat, however, using the same nicks & PWs,
I was asked to download the latest version of Yahoo Chat. When I declined
to do so, I ran into the same dilemma you described, receiving a chat
window from 'System', begging "Please".....and being unable to complete 
the login. I suspect that if you download the latest version of Yahoo Chat,
you'll have no trouble completing the login....
As for me, it's time for bed.....  : )

sublime1-az

No sublime, that is NOT the problem, it's STILL yahoo' problem. I just
deleted ALL my old profiles, save for my original ID "InvestorStox.
Yahoo' servers will NOT authenicate my p/w nor my identity in either
yahoo chat or messenger. Somehow, somewhere, they "erased" my
InvestorStox profile, which is you DEFAULT profile. Regardless of what
ID you use in chat or ANY yahoo service, the servers there and the
database (yeah right) always refer to your DEFAULT profile. So even
though I've tried to logon with "stockzguy" the server rejected me
faster than a bad packet. Yes, I d/l the lastest version of both chat
and messenger, did not help. Went and used my brothers 'puter, same
bullcrap. I called and emailed yahoo, again, they don't care, they are
too big now, I don't matter, even as a YHOO shareholder, they could
care less, wait til the next shareholders meeting, boy, oh boy :)

You might be interested to know that I have had the same problem on my
parents' computer. One day it would no longer connect to Yahoo chat. I
tried every browser from IE4 to Mozilla 1.2a, nothing worked. I wiped
the computer, tried again. Nothing. I was suspecting a hardware
problem, but now at work, my computer cannot open Yahoo chat.

The other parts I have not attempted to use.

Incidentally, I believe they have multiple versions of their chat
applet, I remember reading that IE needs Microsoft's VM to work.