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Today, 4th May 2007, I received a letter from Yahoo. Mine is below, and further down is the exact email I received. Yahoo had suspended my Yahoo account in January as a knee jerk response to Emma Read, who said I was publishing pornographic material. In circumstances like this, Yahoo don't ask any questions and pull accounts straight away.
I wrote them the letter below and posted it to them and also faxed them every day automatically from 28th April 2007, until 3 May 2007.Apologies for the gaps, this is Microsoft Front Page doing it yet again. Continue down through the page. It's superb to see them ( Yahoo ) taking a reasonable view of my very patient letter where I explained democracy and free speech and for this, I am prepared to delete the picture of Mollie not wearing pants whilst asleep on the sofa in her school clothes. However, all readers should be aware that I do not consider this pornographic, as it was so far away. How else am I meant to prove Emma never did the washing?
Le Mas des Vignes
Lieu dit la Madeleine
LES ARCS
83460 FRANCE
To Yahoo Legal Department
Legal Department 02071311015
Yahoo! UK Ltd
125 Shaftesbury Avenue
London WC2H 8AD
26th April 2007
Dear Sirs
I write with regard to my account which I have had for many years, edward_sc_pascoe@yahoo.co.uk
This account was recently deleted at the request of my wife who did not like the truth about my dirty house. Under the pretext that I was showing pornographic images of my children, she managed to get you to delete it. This is nothing short of kneejerk hysteria.
I deny that there were pornographic images on this account. There was a picture of my daughter with no pants on, but this photo was designed to show that my wife never did the washing and that there were no pants for her to put on.
I would like my account reinstated as there are some emails with important Microsoft information ( I am a Microsoft Certified Professional ) and I cannot get this back. It would have been nice for you to have contacted me and asked for my side of the story.
The photographs were painstakingly labelled and you have no right to delete these. I would also like these to be given back to me as they are my intellectual property.
Accordingly I do not consider I have infringed your rules and my photographs as posted were designed to show some unsavoury truths, under freedom of speech and democracy rules.
I know you will have kept a backup so now is the time to reinstate my account or allow me to FTP the files from your server. If I do not get my files back I will commence legal action and claim the costs from yourselves. We put our trust in Yahoo! and this trust is not to be taken lightly as you have done.
Please reply to edwxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk (ANTI SPAM )
Yours sincerely,
Edward Pascoe
-----Original Message-----
From: UK Copyright [mailto:uk_copyright@uk.yahoo-inc.com]
Sent:
04 May 2007 16:04
To: edward.pascoe@<<antipsam>>.co.uk
Subject: Your Yahoo! account
Dear Mr Pascoe
Further to your letter we are writing to inform you that your Yahoo! account edward_s_c<ANTISPAM>pascoe@yahoo.co.uk has now been reactivated.
However the picture of your daughter breaches our Terms of Service, therefore can we ask you to delete it within one week?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
UK Copyright Team
I wrote the following back:-
Many thanks
Edward Pascoe
they wrote back
and 10 minutes later as I couldn't find the photos
Dear Sirs,
As per your request below, I am trying with immediate effect, to delete the photo of my daughter, which I have agreed to remove.
However, I cannot find the photo gallery link that used to be on the options page ( see below) – the photo link used to be on the right under ‘groups’
Please advise where this is so I may go and delete this photograph.
Kind regards
Edward Pascoe
and they even helped me find the link ( which actually didn't exist )
Dear Mr Pascoe
Log on to the link below by using your Yahoo! user ID & password.
Once you are inside your Photos you will be able to see all your albums and find the photo.
Yours sincerely,
UK Copyright Team
I have in the meantime set up another French Yahoo account which is currently dishing out the photos. However the English ones will be there within the week where they used to be. 10/10 to Yahoo!