FEATURE(dnsbl,`ybl.megacity.org’,`Connection from Yahoo denied’)

I maintain a blacklist of all Yahoo’s address space, including space not assigned to *.yahoo.com machines (e.g., hotjobs, etc.)

Works great for preventing occurrences like that.

D

(former Yahoo)

My main beef with Y! is that, over a year ago, I received one of those nifty pager watches, and thinking it would be cool to get info-alerts on my pager-watch, I signed it up with Y!’s Mobile service. After a few weeks, I got really tired of receiving info-pages, and removed my watch from the Mobile service.

I continued to get info-alerts. I double-checked my account to make sure I’d turned info-alerts off, removed the pager info from Y! Mobile, etc. Still got them. Emailed Y! “Tech Support” numerous times. They assured me they were working on it.

Continued to get them. Canceled the account. Still getting them. Emailed tech support half-a-dozen more times. Still getting them. Sent a nasty-gram to Y!’s in-house counsel, threatening lawsuits if they didn’t cease and desist. Still getting them.

My lawyer didn’t feel there was much of a case. The pager service expires today. I’m going to wait a month or two, and then resubscribe. I’m HOPING that will finally stop the damn info-alerts.

My other beef is that they have saturated their web pages and emails with so many frickin’ ads that it’s nearly impossible to find the content among the banners, flash popups, and other crap.

Seriously, John, your message made the rounds at work a couple days ago (while I was at home barfing up a lung) on our internal “here’s where developers go to bitch about stuff” list. I haven’t caught up with the discussion, but I’m sure nobody really answered it.

I’ll try and track down the right HotJobs person to ask the “what the fuck?!” question and see what they say. But I’m not optimistic.

It’s quite sad, really. This isn’t the comapny I came to work for 3 years ago. If the economy wasn’t all shitty, I’d probably be updating my resume… (Oh, wait. Did that a month or so ago.)

It’s one thing to work for a company that pays you well and lets you work with cool technology. It’s another to have to pretend you don’t know what they’re really trying to do.

Ugh.

I just noticed the internal Y! referers on the bottom of this page.

Classic.

At least you know some of them read it. I’m not making it up.

That’s nothing compared to this rant about Yahoo! Hotjobs