Re: Yet another reason to hate Yahoo

From: Citizen_Cain (noemailhere_at_askmenicely.invaild)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:00:51 -0500

<ch1n0_c0ch1n0@salmahayeksknockers.edu> wrote in message
news:nV1yd.10665$KO5.9030@clgrps13...
> In alt.gossip.celebrities Citizen_Cain <noemailhere@askmenicely.invaild>
wrote:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/21/soldier.email.ap/index.html
>
> > Dead Marine's kin plead for e-mail
> > Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Posted: 11:01 AM EST (1601 GMT)
>
> > WIXOM, Michigan (AP) -- The family of a Marine killed in Iraq is
pleading
> > with Internet giant Yahoo! for access to his e-mail account, which the
> > company says is off-limits under its privacy policy.
>
> If the son wanted his family to have posthomous access to his email, he
> would have left instructions. He didn't, and deserves his privacy, even
> after death.

True. I mean, how bad would it be if the family found out that the guy was
a porn addict with a fetish for bearded ladies and midgets? But it
shouldn't be Yahoo's decision to make. It should be the family's.

>
> I won'der if Halliburton will be kind enough to send his family a
> Halliburton coffee mug for their loss.