As has hap­pened so many times before (about 78, from my records), a Chi­nese link-​​bomber added one of my email addresses to an automatically-​​created Yahoo! group, in prepa­ra­tion for basi­cally send­ing out ran­dom link mes­sages via “posts” to the group. The last time around, I thought I had it licked by click­ing some hard-​​won set­tings some­where deep in the bow­els of Yahoo! account man­age­ment panes… but I’ve had an account there since prob­a­bly 1995, so it’s hard to recall what all is tucked into the archives.

But I had a look at the Help pages any­way, just to see if I could report the abuse.

Heh.

Here, you go and find me the link where I can report abuse.

I’ll be here when you get back. You will be rant­ing about the awful user expe­ri­ence, I hope, and be ready to throt­tle some­body. Espe­cially if you both­ered to try to fill out the ridicu­lous “con­tact form” they’ve embed­ded there….

So I would close my Yahoo! account entirely, except of course they’ve man­aged to set them­selves up a sin­gle “human shield” in the form of my Flickr account. I’m almost ready to close that, frankly, just on the premise that it’s tainted by association.

Soon enough they’ll fuck that up, too, like they did with the abhor­rent mess they made of del​.icio​.us, and I’ll be free!