Need help with Yahoo experiment please

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Need help with Yahoo experiment please
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Tue, 08-16-2005 - 11:13am

I want to figure out if Yahoo still allows non-paying members to get emails from paying members that include an email address (they did as recently as a few months ago, but I want to see if that has changed). Is there someone who has a profile on Yahoo but is not a subscriber who would be willing to let me email you on Yahoo? If so, you can email me through my profile here on Ivillage if you don't want to post your Yahoo username.

Alternatively, if someone who is a non-paying member has recently received an email from a subscriber that contained an email address, that would be helpful to know as well.

Thanks,
Sheri

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Registered: 10-27-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 3:26pm

It may very well be true that most men like getting some kind of response saying you're not interested, but I have a hard time making myself send them. Except of course,to those who deserve them. LOL

I recently asked a guy to send me a picture since he didn't have one posted. When I got it I wasn't attracted to him at all and chose not to respond. Maybe I should have sent him one that said we are not a match, but I just felt like that would be more rude than just not responding at all. Fortunately, he didn't write back asking if I had gotten it.

I may take some heat for that, but so be it.

Libra

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Registered: 02-07-2005
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 3:38pm

Hi Libra,

I know what you are saying about getting the pic you asked for from the guy and not being interested! What do you say then without seeming shallow??? I had one guy cutting himself down so much after he sent me the pic I just felt so badly for him, he had such low self esteem. I didn't want to lowe rit any more but didn't really know what to do, so I ghosted...

That is why I seldom talk on yahoo IM to the Yahoo Personals guys. They have viewed your pic and maybe your profile (more than likely haven't even read it though!) and they click to IM you if they see that you are online. Well so many of them do not even have pics posted, so you have no idea what *they* look like, then if you ask to see one and they send it and you aren't interested, then what??? It puts you in a rough place...

You could just block them and not answer, which feels cowardly to me; or you could continue talking to them, which then gives them false hope; or you could be truthful and say you aren't attracted to them, but that just feels too mean to me. I don't know any other way to do it, so now I just mostly avoid talking on IM usually before I meet someone if no pic is shown right away on the screen. Now it's different if I have met them face to face and want to talk to them on IM afterwards.

This OLDing can be pretty tricky at times.

Sunshine

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Registered: 05-09-2005
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 4:02pm
I'm a non-paying member and 2 weeks ago I received an email from a guy who had his phone number in the message. Last week I received a message from a guy who sent me an email with this email address in the message. I'm able to get messages but, of course, I could only respond with a ice breaker or "thanks I really like your message!" Also, you can only send 1-2 ice breakers -- of course, don't know if that stands true for that same person sending emails.
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Registered: 10-27-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 4:24pm

Sunshine,

I keep my IM on the invisible setting to keep from encouraging IM's from people that I don't know. All my family and friends know that it's usually on if they want to reach me. If there is someone that I want to chat with I tell them that I'm invisible. Occasionally I will get someone from yahoo personals who takes a chance to see if I'm online, in those cases, I just close it out and ignore them. The way I see it is, that's just plain rude, I prefer that someone ask me by email if it's ok to IM me sometime instead of having an IM pop up in my face saying, "Hey, saw your profile on yahoo, you're hot!"...I never reply, but there's a part of me that wants to reply, "Yes I am, and you're outta here!" then their computer would start smoking and slowly melt like the Wicked Witch of the North did. LMAO!!

Yes, somedays I do have a wicked sense of humor. ;-)

Libra

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Tue, 08-16-2005 - 4:27pm

Thanks, I just want to clarify...the guy last week sent you his regular email address in his email to you on yahoo personals? So you could respond to him if you wanted to (sending him a regular email from your regular email account), correct?

Sheri

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Registered: 02-19-2004
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 4:36pm

Sheri,

Even if yahoo could detect and block (or mark out) emails, couldn't you still type them like this: firstamendment at yahoo dot com

Then the computer just think's it's text (which it actually is).

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Tue, 08-16-2005 - 4:51pm

You would think...but that's what I'm trying to find out with the help of my trusty helpers on this experiment ;-).

I sent my email address to them with in both the @yahoo.com style and written out like you suggested. We'll see what goes through!

Sheri

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Registered: 02-07-2005
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 5:34pm

Hi Sheri,

I am not a paying member on Yahoo now but still have my profile up. I have received emails from guys recently on there that have included their email addresses typed exactly as they are in the body of their email. I'm not sure why Yahoo is now allowing it because they didn't before.

I have in the body of my profile that they will have to be creative to contact me since I am not a sub. right now and most guys just don't get it and just send ice breakers! I am actually surprised Yahoo approved the profile with that in it though. Oh well I want a smart guy anyway!

I know Match usually deletes the addresses in the bodies of emails on their site.

Sunshine

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Tue, 08-16-2005 - 5:46pm

Hmmm...so far as I know, Yahoo has always allowed it...for as long as I've been on there, anyway; I just wanted to make sure that was still the case (and I just confirmed that it is still the case). Match is the only one that strips the email addresses out, at least of the services I've used.

I have to admit, I don't understand how, exactly, they would "be creative" to contact you...do you have your email address hidden in your profile or something? I feel dumb for admitting that ;-), LOL. In any event, the guys who are sending you icebreakers might just be testing to see if you have any interest before they get creative ;-).

Sheri

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Registered: 02-07-2005
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 5:49pm

Yeah I do have my email address tucked neatly in my profile also.

Sunshine