For us, in our case our account name was historically at DOT CA login, the "CA" in this case being Canada, not California.
Our account name was "stickydoggy [at] yahoo.ca" so for the purposes of Yahoo Mail and Sitebuilder, we would log on as
"sticky doggy at yahoo dot ca", using the "@" symbol and of course no spaces.
However every time we've run the latest version of Aabaco Sitebuilder it seems to revert to "...at yahoo DOT COM", not dot ca.
So for us, in our experience it isn't storing the proper information; we have to manually adjust the login EVERY TIME or it doesn't seem
to work. We have no idea where they got the "stickydoggy@yahoo.com" or whether there is still an e-mail address with that name. Like
when they use your real name in their community pages (a clear privacy violation!!!) this seems to be a bit arbitrary.
Anyway, hope this description of what happened to us helps... in our case it took us over a week to figure all of this out, and Marc helped
immensely. Yahoo does have a real telephone number of course, and there is a real P.O. box address in Sunnyvale.
If you need to discuss this issue further, write to t n s s b b s (no spaces) at hotmail dot com, thanks.
Good luck! When choosing service providers, go for the ones whose software is written in English and seems to make sense.
There's nothing worse than rigid systems where you just have to do this, that and the other thing and there's unusual themes like
the Knights of the Round Table or "Westworld"... unless you have specifically ordered this information and styling!
Our account name was "stickydoggy [at] yahoo.ca" so for the purposes of Yahoo Mail and Sitebuilder, we would log on as
"sticky doggy at yahoo dot ca", using the "@" symbol and of course no spaces.
However every time we've run the latest version of Aabaco Sitebuilder it seems to revert to "...at yahoo DOT COM", not dot ca.
So for us, in our experience it isn't storing the proper information; we have to manually adjust the login EVERY TIME or it doesn't seem
to work. We have no idea where they got the "stickydoggy@yahoo.com" or whether there is still an e-mail address with that name. Like
when they use your real name in their community pages (a clear privacy violation!!!) this seems to be a bit arbitrary.
Anyway, hope this description of what happened to us helps... in our case it took us over a week to figure all of this out, and Marc helped
immensely. Yahoo does have a real telephone number of course, and there is a real P.O. box address in Sunnyvale.
If you need to discuss this issue further, write to t n s s b b s (no spaces) at hotmail dot com, thanks.
Good luck! When choosing service providers, go for the ones whose software is written in English and seems to make sense.
There's nothing worse than rigid systems where you just have to do this, that and the other thing and there's unusual themes like
the Knights of the Round Table or "Westworld"... unless you have specifically ordered this information and styling!
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Sticky is a cute little dog who lives in Toronto. After Yahoo closed Geocities we migrated his web pages to the "Pagebuilder"
platform and from there we went to "Sitebuilder". We are interested in mobile applications and responsive and adaptive screen design.
platform and from there we went to "Sitebuilder". We are interested in mobile applications and responsive and adaptive screen design.
Of recent (winter, early 2017) there seem to be problems with Yahoo's web hosting service, a.k.a. Aabaco
Web Hosting. The vendor was not being very helpful or forthcoming for the last ten days or so.
Okay, what we did in our case (it all happened quite suddenly, for us) was we made sure we had all of our account names
and passwords gathered up, and we asked Marc E. Mosher over at HMI Enterprises dot com to look at the situation. Marc does
this stuff (setting up and troubleshooting web pages, web consulting etc.) for a living; he is based in upstate New York.
If memory serves, Marc said that with Filezilla, you have to make sure that for "Encryption" you've set it to "Require explicit FTP over TLS"
Web Hosting. The vendor was not being very helpful or forthcoming for the last ten days or so.
Okay, what we did in our case (it all happened quite suddenly, for us) was we made sure we had all of our account names
and passwords gathered up, and we asked Marc E. Mosher over at HMI Enterprises dot com to look at the situation. Marc does
this stuff (setting up and troubleshooting web pages, web consulting etc.) for a living; he is based in upstate New York.
If memory serves, Marc said that with Filezilla, you have to make sure that for "Encryption" you've set it to "Require explicit FTP over TLS"
The host is "ftp dot yourdomain dot com" so in our case, ours would be ftp.stickydoggy.com
The logon type should be "normal".
Regarding setting up the FTP access, our user name is "webmaster" at stickydoggy dot COM Please note the "dot com" part, as we
are in Canada and this "dot com" login is actually different from our Sitebuilder login which may be a bit confusing... in Sitebuilder
we are "stickydoggy@yahoo.ca". Marc entered the w-e-b-m-a-s-t-e-r for us in the FTP thing as the default didn't seem to work. At least
one Aabaco help page touches on username variations; chances are your login protocol may have similar quirks... maybe, maybe not.
At any rate this is what we are entering in our FTP setup: "webmaster" at stickydoggy dot com (because we happen to have a dot com
domain; people with dot net or dot org may require a different string of characters).
On top of everything and all of these complicated procedures, we think we've found a pesky bug in the little Sitebuilder login window!
Regarding setting up the FTP access, our user name is "webmaster" at stickydoggy dot COM Please note the "dot com" part, as we
are in Canada and this "dot com" login is actually different from our Sitebuilder login which may be a bit confusing... in Sitebuilder
we are "stickydoggy@yahoo.ca". Marc entered the w-e-b-m-a-s-t-e-r for us in the FTP thing as the default didn't seem to work. At least
one Aabaco help page touches on username variations; chances are your login protocol may have similar quirks... maybe, maybe not.
At any rate this is what we are entering in our FTP setup: "webmaster" at stickydoggy dot com (because we happen to have a dot com
domain; people with dot net or dot org may require a different string of characters).
On top of everything and all of these complicated procedures, we think we've found a pesky bug in the little Sitebuilder login window!
For example people who like trains may like to have their computer forum be "The Roundhose" and a business that operates
a dude ranch may call their customer area "The Corral"... aviation enthusiasts like to do a bit of "hanger flying" and so on.
The point is that everyone thinks differently and we all process information differently... for general applications, categories
of information should be fluid and customizable, and remedied on the fly eg. you can turn off the frills and doo-dads if they don't
suit you at any particular moment in time; computers have enough processing power to make these changes in a split second!
We're reminded here of the dinosaur-like CompuServe Information Service which used to insist that your login bill (CompuServe
use was billed by the minute) had to rounded off to the furthest minute of the time you spent on-line, and they had absolutely no
intention of ever changing this*. During occasional downtime they would say "Oh, we're having trouble with your access node" but
if you went out of state, and tried getting your computer to connect to the West (or East) coast you'd get the same downtime!
Also Yahoo's security and privacy practices are appalling! We have let a couple of domains lapse and in each case we've gotten SPAM
and worse - "worse" being snail mail letters from local data harvesters/domain registration services. Yahoo either never mentioned this
part, when we signed up for web hosting after Geocities folded, or it was buried in the fine print of the contract. We don't know if
this is a Yahoo thing or if it's an internet thing... the missing phrase in the Aabaco agreement is "in perpetuity"... anyway learn some-
thing every day.
End of file. Last updated at 9:55 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday January 17, 2017 *since rounding to the furthest minute meant higher billings for them, for every one of tens of thousand of users, grrrrr!
a dude ranch may call their customer area "The Corral"... aviation enthusiasts like to do a bit of "hanger flying" and so on.
The point is that everyone thinks differently and we all process information differently... for general applications, categories
of information should be fluid and customizable, and remedied on the fly eg. you can turn off the frills and doo-dads if they don't
suit you at any particular moment in time; computers have enough processing power to make these changes in a split second!
We're reminded here of the dinosaur-like CompuServe Information Service which used to insist that your login bill (CompuServe
use was billed by the minute) had to rounded off to the furthest minute of the time you spent on-line, and they had absolutely no
intention of ever changing this*. During occasional downtime they would say "Oh, we're having trouble with your access node" but
if you went out of state, and tried getting your computer to connect to the West (or East) coast you'd get the same downtime!
Also Yahoo's security and privacy practices are appalling! We have let a couple of domains lapse and in each case we've gotten SPAM
and worse - "worse" being snail mail letters from local data harvesters/domain registration services. Yahoo either never mentioned this
part, when we signed up for web hosting after Geocities folded, or it was buried in the fine print of the contract. We don't know if
this is a Yahoo thing or if it's an internet thing... the missing phrase in the Aabaco agreement is "in perpetuity"... anyway learn some-
thing every day.
End of file. Last updated at 9:55 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday January 17, 2017 *since rounding to the furthest minute meant higher billings for them, for every one of tens of thousand of users, grrrrr!
Interesting Links
(**Disclaimer: these notes are posted as a courtesy; generally speaking we are not affiliated with any of these pages or organizations**)
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Computers, Freedom and Privacy web page: www.cfp.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson U., Toronto Canada - Dr. Ann Cavoukian has been vocal on such issues as the privacy shenanigans at Facebook Corp.
"When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data is, Too" - article in the New York Times (June 29, 2015 p.B1) about what happens when large IT companies go
under and the assets -- including your personal info -- are divvied up. A text-only copy of this item is posted here.
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson - (Amazon link) a book about John von Neumann and the calculations for the H-bomb and the original Electronic Computer Project.
A difficult read, esp. if you don't have a doctorate in electrical engineering or astrophysics, but this is where it all started folks - at Princeton and at the University of Manchester.
Von Neumann used to theorize waaaaaay into the future; best thing since Vannevar Bush and the Memex, Alan Kay and the Dynabook, stuff like that. We didn't get going until
1980 and the Commodore PET; the first software we ever bought was a PONG-like program that came on a cassette tape and had mimeographed instructions!
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser - a book about an accident involving a Titan II missile silo, and the development and implentation of fairly rigid rules for controlling
and maintaining nuclear weapons. Schlosser describes many fumbles in detail and suggests that the Air Force's need for new-technology communications networks, for the new weapons
systems (their first network was called "SAGE") was the driving force for later networks such as DARPA, CompuServe, UUCP, bulletin boards etc. According to Schosser the Titan's need
for lightweight onboard computation drove the trend towards physically smaller hardware. At any rate (and we say this at the risk of over-simplifying many of the issues) the book shows
how, for all sorts of reasons, large organizations like the USAF, the AEC, White House etc. don't always tell you everything when there is a crisis going on... kind of like Yahoo was
behaving in the wake of their big security breach and subsequent sale to Verizon Corp.. Helluva way to run a railroad: everybody is glued to their seat covering their own ass and
refusing to budge. You have to get out there and have a real dialogue with the stakeholders!
By the way did you notice that as late as mid January 2017 "Aabaco" was advertising 24/7 phone support as part of their web hosting plans? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! weep weep
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson U., Toronto Canada - Dr. Ann Cavoukian has been vocal on such issues as the privacy shenanigans at Facebook Corp.
"When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data is, Too" - article in the New York Times (June 29, 2015 p.B1) about what happens when large IT companies go
under and the assets -- including your personal info -- are divvied up. A text-only copy of this item is posted here.
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson - (Amazon link) a book about John von Neumann and the calculations for the H-bomb and the original Electronic Computer Project.
A difficult read, esp. if you don't have a doctorate in electrical engineering or astrophysics, but this is where it all started folks - at Princeton and at the University of Manchester.
Von Neumann used to theorize waaaaaay into the future; best thing since Vannevar Bush and the Memex, Alan Kay and the Dynabook, stuff like that. We didn't get going until
1980 and the Commodore PET; the first software we ever bought was a PONG-like program that came on a cassette tape and had mimeographed instructions!
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser - a book about an accident involving a Titan II missile silo, and the development and implentation of fairly rigid rules for controlling
and maintaining nuclear weapons. Schlosser describes many fumbles in detail and suggests that the Air Force's need for new-technology communications networks, for the new weapons
systems (their first network was called "SAGE") was the driving force for later networks such as DARPA, CompuServe, UUCP, bulletin boards etc. According to Schosser the Titan's need
for lightweight onboard computation drove the trend towards physically smaller hardware. At any rate (and we say this at the risk of over-simplifying many of the issues) the book shows
how, for all sorts of reasons, large organizations like the USAF, the AEC, White House etc. don't always tell you everything when there is a crisis going on... kind of like Yahoo was
behaving in the wake of their big security breach and subsequent sale to Verizon Corp.. Helluva way to run a railroad: everybody is glued to their seat covering their own ass and
refusing to budge. You have to get out there and have a real dialogue with the stakeholders!
By the way did you notice that as late as mid January 2017 "Aabaco" was advertising 24/7 phone support as part of their web hosting plans? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! weep weep
