FYI: I closed my Yahoo account

[mizapf]

Just for information - I actually did not follow the discussions on the Yahoo groups for a long time by now, so I shut down my account there. If you know of people looking for me over there, AA is the place to find me.

[Willsy]

I think I'll not be far behind you. Yahoo mail is a mess.

[Vorticon]

I have not checked the TI listserv there in ages. Everything I need seems to be here on AA and in a much more user friendly format to boot. I guess I keep the account alive for sentimental (?) reasons...

[Tursi]

I turned off delivery of the emails this week (I was still getting them), but I didn't kill my account just yet. Everyone knows to find me at my web address anyway.

[+save2600]

I think I'll not be far behind you. Yahoo mail is a mess.

...and how!

[+InsaneMultitasker]

My Yahoo emails automatically drop into a dedicated folder just in case I have a desire to poke at them. Once I figure out what to do with the dedicated Geneve Yahoo group, I'll probably cut ties myself.

[+Schmitzi]

same same.

just watching the mails for 10+ years, but have been online there only for some times, and was desperate for the GUI everytime

I am sure I am the next, cutting this rope.

 

The last one switch the light off, please

[mizapf]

Feels like a party here ... the first one says "gotta go now", all others joining ... In German we have the word "Aufbruchstimmung" for that.

 

[Just checked: it is indeed quite difficult to find a suitable English translation for that (which fits the same contexts)]

Edited July 9, 2015 by mizapf

[+Schmitzi]

oder: "Die Wende" (the change)

[mizapf]

Come on, "Wind of change" ... (whistle ... whistle...)

[Omega-TI]

Come on, "Wind of change" ... (whistle ... whistle...)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ

[+Ksarul]

A case of wanderlust would also describe it quite well in English, Michael. . .the desire to get up and move on.

[mizapf]

Sort of, but does not fit all situations. It is funny to see that the German language exported many terms that cover, I'd say, complex mental attitudes or states that are not easily described in words, even by native speakers - think of Gemütlichkeit or Angst, or your cited Wanderlust.

 

Aufbruchstimmung (literally "departure mood") is somewhat the positive counterpart to restlessness. In the more concrete meaning it refers to the positive excitement when you are just about to go on a long-awaited journey. In a more abstract meaning it refers to the atmosphere that you sense in you or in a group of people who feel motivated to leave the current state of a lack of prospects, of stagnation, of depression (could say, getting up their a**es, getting in gear) with a firm expectation that things will turn for the better now. And on said party, this mood shows up when it's already late but no one dares to leave first, and then there is some common agreement to go. After unification, in East Germany there was a lot of Aufbruchstimmung (as long as people believed Chancellor Kohl's claim that we would soon find "blooming landscapes" and no impact on taxes and so on).

[Tursi]

Nah, you're totally right, Mizapf. There's no direct analogue in English (even though everyone knows the emotion. Sometimes I'll deliberately announce "Well, I'm going to be that guy and be the first one out" just to see who follows, hehe. ) Some German words make their way across directly for that reason, 'schadenfreude' comes to mind. I like knowing that "aufbruchstimmung" exists for the party aspect, although I probably won't be able to remember it.

[+Schmitzi]

yeah, maybe Aufbruchstimmung is something like "rising, self-sprouting common optimism" ?

[Keith99er]

'Self-sprouting' is my new favourite phrase

[+OLD CS1]

I have to keep my Yahoo mail account for testing various scenarios and configurations. For instance, I was testing my mailing list server and needed to see how messages were displayed and received on GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL. That is the only reason I have any of those accounts. It's funny -- I chose random user names for each and within a week I was receiving spam.

[atrax27407]

I think that whole group is spam.

[Omega-TI]

I think I'll not be far behind you. Yahoo mail is a mess.

 

Ditto on that. I'll have to do some consolidation, but the photo below is what finally did it for me (after not logging in for just two days).

 

I've not been to the Yahoo TI-groups in quite a while either.

[sometimes99er]

I have not checked the TI listserv there in ages. Everything I need seems to be here on AA and in a much more user friendly format to boot.

 

Ditto.

[+Schmitzi]

Yes, and at any login at Yahoo I have to do many clicks around NOT to enter my handynumber, NOT to change my password

very annoying "education"