Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list?

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YourhandMyAss -> Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:20:48 PM)
I had Daddies cell phone and work phone number listed in the contact info on yahoo an then tonight when I went to look up his number yahoo had changed it back to the old 707 number.:(

sappatoti -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:23:55 PM)
Just pure speculation here... This might be a case where something happened and they had to reload from backups. Give them a day or two to see if it changes back to the correct information. Yahoo may have to restore a series of backups to get everything back to where it should be.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:25:31 PM)
Ok, and in the mean time never rely on electronics only to keep the telephone handy lol cause if I'd written it down on a piece of paper and tapped it to my pc I wouldn't of had to wait 30 mins for him to call instead of being able to call an ask my question:P

hopelessfool -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:26:02 PM)
Yup yahoos servers hiccuped, only people added several weeks ago have the proper contact information on my list, everyone in the last few weeks are the regular screen names and wont be edited. Personally Id keep the numbers in a word doc, not something that can be influenced by servers

sappatoti -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:30:45 PM)
That would be your best bet -- to keep a paper backup -- if the information is important enough that you need immediate access to it. Living the digital life is full of surprises, such as lost data. The individual PC users at home aren't the only ones that lose hard drives or interfaces, large corporations do too. Some companies have the resources to have many redundant backups so that data loss is never apparent to the end users. Other companies make do with less sophisticated backups in which there may be a period of time that troubles are obvious to the users. It all depends upon how each corporation views the importance of their backup strategies vs. the cost of implementing them vs. the uniqueness of the outage. I have no idea how Yahoo deals with data backups, so I cannot speak for them. Hence my "speculation" disclaimer in my previous post.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:31:45 PM)
Word doc can get fucked up too. I rather prefere taping someoen's phone number to my pc moniter if they're someone I am going to need to call regularly or want to call regularly.

TheGorenSociety -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/25/2008 11:35:55 PM)
we just keep a update contact list both printed and on our pc and it is backed uped to our in house server.We keep it s a txt and rtf format hard to fuck those up much.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: Has yahoo ever changed the contact info of those in your ims list? (8/27/2008 11:30:41 PM)
the glitch didn't fix, but I've got his number backed up, so no big deal.

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