Petition to request that Yahoo Inc reconsider their decision to charge fees for pop mail, groups, and homepages

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Dear Yahoo! Management,

We, the undersigned, are signing this petition to protest the new Yahoo pricing structure in relation to several of the services most popular features such as Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Mail, and GeoCities. While we agree and understand that it is the primary goal of any company, including Yahoo, to expand their services and to make money, we feel that Yahoo is deliberately targeting users who have no choice or option in using Yahoo services. Yahoo Clubs, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Mail, and GeoCities are all services that, once signed up for and established, are very difficult and extremely inconvenient to migrate from Yahoo to another service. We believe that Yahoo is deliberately targeting these users in total disregard to our needs and desires.

We would like to strongly encourage the management of Yahoo, Inc to reconsider their pricing structure for these services and consider continuing the current structure of Yahoo as supported primarily by advertising.

60777 Signatures

  • sue schultz
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please don't do this
  • Patricia Mcfarland
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • you will lose more then we will-our groups can be started elsewhere...please reconsider...
  • Linda Faulkner
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please don`t start charging us. A lot of us either can`t afford it, or we don`t have a credit card to be able to pay for it.
  • Randy Silver
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • stop the charges
  • Bertie Walker
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • I would pray that you would reconsider this action. There are many of us senior citizens out here, on low or liminted incomes, that could not afford the services. To some, this is their only "outlet" in life. I would beg you to please reconsider. Thank you ever so much
  • melissa peltier
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • what happened to 100% free? Slowly but surely, you have gone back on your promises.
  • beth
  • Robert Gray
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please leave as is
  • jimmy wynn
  • Ellen Brietbarth
  • Pamela Smith
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • My club of 1,400+ is ready to relocate to a new chat means.
  • Richard Wahl
  • Larry Benton
  • Charles Harrison
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please reconsider your decision, not everyone has the ability to pay for all those services and have been loyal yahoo users for years. Perhaps offering extra services to your Premium Subscribers and not changing the regular services is still a viable option. Thank You for listening
  • Cristobal Vazquez Jr.
  • Curtis
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • I'll find somewhere else to use - it seems like you buy up things (Geocities, egroups) and start charging later!
  • Shawn
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • POP mail access is the selling point of Yahoo Mail, please keep this service free like (eek) Hotmail.
  • Connie M. Knight
  • Joe Burleski
  • shayne
  • Gerry Bull
  • John Benedict
  • Carmen Bradshaw
  • Brian Houlihan
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • think twice. i will immediately quit all your programs.
  • Jim Maher
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • This "group" idea stinks. The "clubs" is much better!
  • Lorris Tremblay
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • keep it free
  • Wayne Collins
  • Ed Cusack
  • Mr Anaconda
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • I think you'll find that if you start charging for groups that there will be a huge migration to MSN
  • Jesse Doughty
  • Bob Johnson
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Actually, I applaud the move. I own YHOO stock, and expect this to have a significant impact on the bottom line both by increasing subscription revenue and reducing the costs of providing free services to people who, for some reason, think everything on the internet should be a "free ride". And I apologize for the horrific grammar in the petition. Not my doing.
  • P Haywood
  • Chris Atherley
  • Brenda
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please reconsider your decision to charge fees for pop mail, Groups, and homepages. I know a lot of people use the Groups along with the pop mail and homepages and a lot of them will end up loosing everything if that fee goes into effect. So PLEASE!! I urge you to reconcider your decision.....Thank You.
  • charles
  • Bryan Clark
  • Dorothy Northrip
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Please reconsider your proposals! In my case, I will have to stop using Yahoo for my emails, since I need to relocate them to my hard drive and do not intend paying $20 a month for that privilege.
  • Jimmy Lee Peterson
  • Sam Martin
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • u losing a lot to member
  • tony
  • chris angel
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • i am on a limited income and cant afford this. i rely on our groups as i dont leave my home as im disabled.
  • Roy
  • Candi Pennecard
  • Angela Hooper
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • please let us stay the way we are some of us are disable and don't have meny to give or spend on things.
  • Bob Jones
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • give us a break!!!!
  • Glen Brown
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • Keep current yahoo services free, and Make New Premium Services for a fee. You are FORCING LOYAL users to switch to another internet service.
  • Marlin Hoge
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • While changes in mail don't really affect me, I'm very concerned about groups. Many on-line are people like myself on disability and alone who will be cut off from access to discussion when we so badly need it. I hope you can make some allowances that won't disenfranchise those who can't pay but contribute much to the groups and make them more vibrant so that thoise who can purchase advertised products are more likely to be a part of the groups.
  • Diane P. Oates
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • К
  • Willie Martin
    • Your Personal Message to Yahoo Management
    • I along with a lot of others that are unable to work, because of age or disability, that you would not charge these fees. As we already must live on a limited income, to charge for this service that has always been free would put a burdon upon us that we could not handle. Sincerey yours Willie Martin
  • Tanya