My “real” e-mail address is on Verizon. Everything sent to a DogRat.com address is automatically forwarded to my Verizon mailbox. Verizon doesn’t provide its own web mail access, but instead uses Yahoo!
Two things about using Yahoo! for web mail are:
- When exiting Yahoo!, the focus is taken away from the address field, and put on the search field, which assumes the next thing the user wants to do is search. Very annoying and unacceptable.
- Lots of ads. Also annoying, but accepted.
Many of the ads feature this woman’s face, selling all sorts of different, always questionable, products. Sometimes she’s called Julie, or Candy, or whatever.
Obviously she’s not officially endorsing anything, and her image is being used without permission. She looks French, and she’s apparently a newscaster, so using that Yahoo! search field that I’m always forced into, and entering “french newscaster,” the name Mélissa Theuriau is the #1 result.
Sacre bleu! She should sue!