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I'm pretty sure he means to fix the deliberate piratized misspelling of yarrhoo-inc to yahoo-inc. This technique started with inserting "NOSPAM" into email addr
by bk 18y ago
I'm pretty sure he means to fix the deliberate piratized misspelling of yarrhoo-inc to yahoo-inc. This technique started with inserting "NOSPAM" into email addresses when posting them publicly on the web as a spam protection measure. Since email harvesters probably account for NOSPAM insertions by now, the pirate spelling is more effective and, on top of that, arguably funnier.
- dangoldin 18y agoAh thanks for the lesson. I didn't even notice the misspelling.
- sh1mmer 18y agoThat's pretty much the size ofit. In our office we definitely value funny. I was so tickled when I found out we own the misspelling yarhoo.com and point it at yahoo.com
- whatusername 18y agoyou really should try and get it to redirect to it's own page on Sep 19th. That would be awesome matey.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI used to work on Frontpage and I had been trying to get a Pirate logo up. However they tend to only change the logo for major holidays or charities. The only charity I could find that did pirate day stuff are a cancer charity. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness, that got vetoed for doing 2 cancer charity things too close together. Ah well... I'm going to have another go for next year. I was thinking that yarhoo.com could be a pirate translation of your homepage.
- unalone 18y agoThat's excellent. Yahoo's got a very fun sense of humor.