Taglines eliminated: newshound shortage could be next!
- Posted May 16th, 2008 at 8:43 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
You’ve almost certainly seen them before, but as of a few days ago you won’t be seeing them again. Tagline advertisements (which were inserted at the end of email messages) were comprised of short messages for a variety of products, but are now comprised of nothing!
I for one am going to particularly miss the frequent Yahoo! Mobile ad (which replicated on each reply in a thread) encouraging folks to “be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all” with Yahoo! Mobile, but I suppose I’ll learn to cope.
If you find yourself experiencing similar feelings of longing for these blurbs, don’t fret! You can put them in yourself by creating a custom signature! Just follow the directions from Yahoo! Help. In fact, I’m thinking of putting the ‘newshound’ message in my signature, but instead linking to this blog.
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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May 16th, 2008 at 9:21 am
It am so happy that they are gone and Yahoo joined G..L to get rid of those annoying tag lines. Thank you so much.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Is this for real? No tagline advertisement at the end of email messages?
The only reason I still pay for Yahoo Plus is so my outgoing mail doesn’t have taglines. I don’t need POP access anymore and there is no longer a storage limit so…
If true then bravo Yahoo!
May 16th, 2008 at 11:31 am
“About time…” The only reason I switched from Yahoo! mail was the unprofessionalism of having ads in every message.
This is a very big step in the right direction. Bravo!
May 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Fantastic! Those tagline ads were so annoying. Good move Yahoo! Keep it coming.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
whats with the vios ad that pops up when i want to check my email? it pops up right in front of the check email link..
can you get rid of that, that is extremely stupid..
May 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
It hasn’t gone yet for me… am I not being patient enough?
May 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
STILL waiting for the newly revised Classic Mail…..
May 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Good idea. Thanks.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
May 16, 2008, How come the yahoo mail is not working in Firefox but works in IE. Alot of people using Firefox having this problem and there is nothing on this blog about it.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Well, I think they do not bring much benefit (few people even look at those tag lines because they are mostly focused on email content itself).
Perhaps making email service less annoying help yahoo maintain its email user base in current competing market.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:27 am
funny how the write is going to miss those taglines. meanwhile everyone else is very happy.
its funny. who misses ad?
May 17th, 2008 at 12:28 am
funny how the writer is going to miss those taglines. meanwhile everyone else is very happy.
its funny. who misses ad?
May 17th, 2008 at 2:16 am
My Yahoo home page is not updating the sports scores. Maybe with the focus off taglines, effort can go to keeping up with other issues. I forced to go to the “New Yahoo”, I will probably just switch to G-Mail
May 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I am a Plus member so I didn’t have them on my account but now that it is really gone, I might add it as a signature on my account just to have some fun!
“Mario is really happy with the All New Yahoo! Mail – You should check it too!”
May 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
To Ramasvami (comment #33126), I have had no problems for years (that I can remember) by using Firefox for the old and new Yahoo Mail. I have a Plus account but I doubt that matters. My Firefox is 2.0.0.14 running on Win XP.
Ryan,
We still need a better way to group replies with a particular comment.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Just don’t start giving the disposable mail address away for free or I might have to start saving the 19.99USD a year that I pay for Y!M+!
Oh and my Firefox works just fine with “new” Y! Mail.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Wow, Y!Mail just keeps getting better and better! Congrats to the Y!Mail team.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Just don’t put an HTML-coded link a site a blogspot.com in your signature, or any replies to your message will have their headers stripped off by the root mail server and they’ll get dumped into your spam email with no subject line, and a sender of “root@mta123.biz.mud.yahoo.com
Took Yahoo’s help about a month to fix the problem for me. Actually, it took 6-8 different people at the help desk you email about a month to be completely useless, and one 20-minute phone call to a guy named “Roy” or “Rory” who fixed it while I was on the phone with him.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
While not having taglines is nice, it’s not a fix that was inherently necessary to the usability of Yahoo Mail. Instead, having features like IMAP are much more useful to the userbase at large.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!! This was the only thing holding Yahoo back from being as good as Gmail. Well, forgetting the fact that there isn’t POP access, of course :)
May 18th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Looks much more professional now without ads. Thanks.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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May 19th, 2008 at 1:28 am
This is great news! Very professional Yahoo!, thanks a lot!
Not gone for me yet either though (think I’m on farm mg2).
May 19th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Great…you’ve lost the taglines. Now PLEASE bring back “add to address book.”
May 19th, 2008 at 3:22 am
awesome
May 19th, 2008 at 3:41 am
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May 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am
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May 19th, 2008 at 5:27 am
This great for the average user. But, seriously, with all the free stuff added for non-payers, when is there going to be some enhancements for those of us who are Plus purchasers?!? Is it the plan for Plus to go away soon?
May 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
@Seth-
Yahoo Mail Plus offers POP access for a yearly fee… but not IMAP. Gmail offers both POP and IMAP for free.
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May 19th, 2008 at 8:33 am
GREAT Now I will not have such a large file to download, GREAT. These were some of the important things in life, now we have gotten rid of them, good job Yahoo.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
@bbboy,
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Perhaps the snark within the headline and my post was not obvious enough. I’m actually stoked that taglines are going away, but was trying to be humorous. It looks like I need to try harder ;)
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Ryan
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May 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
ryan k how about some new default color huh like black ,royal blue come on yahoo i hear gmail coming with some themes and ryan k i notice people like em, seth mention imap u guys ignore us like our opninion doesnt matter do u even care how poeple in yahoo mail feel when gmail has both pop and imap for free and new themes coming plus no ads we love yahoo products but come one is there any major annoucement on yahoo mail coming anytime soon in weeks do u care people from yahoo mail move to gmail then huh its going to happen yahoo dont make any major changes or improvements in the coming weeks and months
May 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
@chris,
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Not ignoring seth at all. I’ve said many times on this blog that I’m pushing for IMAP, and that feedback from this blog is being shared in the discussions about that and other features.
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Unfortunately I can’t share details until the company decides to share them (though I’m pushing on that front too).
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Ryan
Yahoo! Mail
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May 19th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
okay i understand ryan k thanks at least now i know yahoo does care i just wanted yahoo let us know about any new improvements and annoucment in the coming weeks so ryan k what about new color scheme how about black,red,grey and royal blue can u sugguest that to the yahoo mail team thanks and ryan k what is going on with yahoo calender its seem like is been dead for years no improvment when are u going upgrade it with yahoo mail and classic im mean new feature
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May 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
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May 20th, 2008 at 2:13 am
dslakdalsk
May 20th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Would love to hear news on upcoming additions to Y!Mail Plus.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
this is good!!
except that I just have my Yahoo Mail plus (yes, to get rid of those stupid lines) about one week ago.. :-S
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May 21st, 2008 at 12:52 am
They’re still appearing at the bottom of my emails… when will this come into effect?
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May 21st, 2008 at 10:37 am
I know this question is off topic but since there is babelfish on the site…. I have a suggestion:
add a translation tool into the mail so I can communicate with my friends and business contacts in other countries.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I agree with Chris (Comment 33249). I pay for Plus but seem to be getting less and less for my extra money. I think that this renewal will be my last. How about IMAP?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:40 am
I agree Kevin (#33386). I don’t currently pay for Plus, simply because POP access isn’t a compelling reason to have it. And now with Tags gone for the basic service, there’s not much of a feature gap anymore between the levels of service.
Now IMAP is something I will pay for from Yahoo, (even though Gmail offers it for free, albeit with other caveats: no unlimited storage, etc., contextual ads). I happen to think Yahoo’s web interface is the best.
I’m just not sure why we have to push Yahoo so hard to offer IMAP. I’m honestly perplexed.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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May 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Taglines are still on my emails! maybe australia will be the last to get this update!
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:19 am
Doesn’t Yahoo! make money with these tag line ads? I want Yahoo! to make money. I’m a Plus member and I certainly don’t mind paying for such a great service but now I’m wondering why I’m paying.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:24 am
What new features are you rolling out for plus customers? Thanks.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:55 am
Two weeks since this blog post but they’re still appearing at the bottom of my emails… when will this come into effect?
June 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Ive been using yahoo mail plus since june 2007. What if I dont update now as its gonna be finished in 2-3 days??
I hope I won’t loose my ID. Affirmative answers would be appreciated.. Thanx
June 13th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Still appearing…
June 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I agree Kevin (#33386) too. I’ve been paying for Yahoo Mail Plus for a while now and it appears Yahoo is giving me less and less for the 20 dollars I pay each year. I might not renew next year unless Yahoo starts giving me some more compelling reasons to stay.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
GREATEST NEWS…I moved sonce I could not publish my mail into my blog because of taglines. You have recaptured your niche market
June 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
GREATEST NEWS…I moved since I could not publish my mail into my blog because of taglines. You have recaptured your niche market
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:09 am
The taglines are still being added to the bottom of my emails.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Ads are still being appended on non-US accounts. For my email at yahoo.co.in, I still get ads appended both in classic mode and normal mode.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 am
Still there…
August 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
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August 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 am
I don’t think this is happening, am still getting these damn unprofessional tagline ads at the end of my emails :[
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
They’ve gone at last!
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
“Taglines Eliminated” and Eradicated…
My post last month moaning at Yahoo! for not doing what they said they would – regarding the taglines added to emails sent from Yahoo! Mail – appears to have done the trick.
Some time over this weekend they must have flipped a switch, as the first emai…
October 20th, 2008 at 7:43 am
They’re back! What’s going on?!
October 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Yes, they are back today!
October 21st, 2008 at 1:56 am
And now they’re gone again!
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