[Ipg-smz] Wondering - would Verizon turn off Yahoo Mail if it wasn't making enough profit?

[Patrick Corrigan]

I use Yahoo for mail I don't care about.

I may have to get my own domain name again, just in case Google decides to
do something like that.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:29 AM Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

>
>    Verizon admits it's not making money with its AOL and Yahoo purchases.
> Does that mean that one day Yahoo Mail might simply get shut off?
> (Perhaps with 30 days notice for folks to download their emails.)
>
>     At my public library job, I tell people who use Yahoo Mail that it's a
> good idea to have another email account - whether that be Gmail, iCloud, or
> Live.com
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