After spending some time on here and feeling the emotional damage, heartbreak, economic sabotage and general malfeasance that the haphazard choice to delete ppls accounts under some loose "policy" never agreed to or offered for users to consider to even have an inkling of a thought that after 25 plus years of functional email, one day that space would be violated by the very company tasked to guard its security. Especially those accounts that made it through the Y2K scare and have been a backstop and witness of the history of the internet first hand. It seems downright CRIMINAL, all those documents, correspondence, images, etc ppl save throughout their lives choosing what should have been a safer way to store a lifetime of memories rather than risk a house fire where the family photo albums go up in flames but in the ether on servers that are kept functioning and data that is always backed up. That's what makes this so crazy, they have that data in deep storage somewhere on tape , zip disk or some other form of deep backup that the admins used throughout the growth of the internet, They could do alot more than nothing.

The fact that when legacy users Especially those from the 90s created accounts, the TOS I am guessing gave them peace of mind and reason to create the account believing to be holding their end of a deal, I'd like to see the toss I agreed to, I am willing to bet it didn't mention mass delete ting 26+ years of content on an account that was being actively used , but not often but enough it was being logged into a couple times a year and had a few smtp and pop3 requests too.

I think since yahoo won't make this right or can't make this right it's time to put a price tag on the action and create a class action lawsuit alleging malfeasance and gross violations of the user agreement