Uhhh... no. I'm afraid you did not get this right.:) Which is not your fault, of course. I did not explain the whole situation this time, because it's just another one of the many posts I have made about this since I moved.
She is not using my phone company account. I don't have one any more. It was her account all along, but when I lived with her, I was paying half of it, and had my Yahoo email address connected to it. But BEFORE that, I used to have a free Yahoo account - and so I thought I would be able to switch back to it after I moved, without losing all the stuff I had saved in my mail folders over the years. But in order to cancel the paid account and switch to a free one, I need to be able to access it, of course, and prove that I am indeed its owner. Which I cannot do anymore, because she changed my password right after I moved out, and never even told me about it, so that I wouldn't have to waste my time trying to contact Yahoo & the phone company in order to figure out what happened. And why did she do this? Because she could. Because she doesn't trust me. Because she seems to think I am unreliable; maybe even suspects I wanted to still use the paid mail account without actually paying fot it. I TOLD her, repeatedly, that I just need the account information in order to CANCEL my paid account and switch my saved mail back to a FREE one - but she either didn't get that or chose not to believe it. So there's nothing I can do.
Use your payment information
I don't have that. She is the one paying the bills. My bank account was never in any way connected to the phone/internet service at her place. All I did was hand her a check once a month with my rent + my share of the bills. And that is precisely why I cannot prove anything to anyone. To that phone company, I am a non-existent person. They don't have my name in their records. They only have an email address, which used to be mine, and still has all my private correspondence in it - but which I cannot access anymore. Now, if my ex-roommate was a different kind of person and wanted to help me, she would explain the situation to them herself, or give me the information I need, so that I could do it. But, if the recent turn of events is anything to go by, it's not going to happen.:(
Get another, new phone company and mail provider
I don't need a new phone company. I have a cell phone, and my new internet service is cable, so there's no need for me to pay for a landline. And of course I have a new email account. All I am whinging about is my old saved email, because I am a sentimental fool like that. You know, all the slash fiction from the Yahoo Groups, feedback for MY fiction, replies to LJ comments etc. I've been saving it all meticulously over the years, stacking it neatly into appropriate mail folders. And now it's all as good as gone, because my ex-roommate doesn't like me.:/
if you send your termination information to the company in written form, then they cannot insist that you should give the password, can they?
I have no idea - but I wouldn't want to terminate that account even if I could. I just want the contents of it back.:(
I hope I was able to clarify the whole thing. Oh, and btw, she is not using my email address (or at least I hope not... lol). We had separate ones, but they were both part of the same phone/internet account. And since one person can have multiple Yahoo ID's, there is no way for me to prove that I was actually a different person using one of them. Which is why she could kick me out of my mailbox so easily. I just never thought she'd be that mean - or I'd take care of the whole problem BEFORE I moved. There is a saying that some people are only wise after they have been fooled. Too true, I'm afraid.:(
Well... sorry for the looong rant, and thanks for trying to help anyway.:)
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Date: 2007-05-18 03:30 am (UTC)She is not using my phone company account. I don't have one any more. It was her account all along, but when I lived with her, I was paying half of it, and had my Yahoo email address connected to it. But BEFORE that, I used to have a free Yahoo account - and so I thought I would be able to switch back to it after I moved, without losing all the stuff I had saved in my mail folders over the years. But in order to cancel the paid account and switch to a free one, I need to be able to access it, of course, and prove that I am indeed its owner. Which I cannot do anymore, because she changed my password right after I moved out, and never even told me about it, so that I wouldn't have to waste my time trying to contact Yahoo & the phone company in order to figure out what happened. And why did she do this? Because she could. Because she doesn't trust me. Because she seems to think I am unreliable; maybe even suspects I wanted to still use the paid mail account without actually paying fot it. I TOLD her, repeatedly, that I just need the account information in order to CANCEL my paid account and switch my saved mail back to a FREE one - but she either didn't get that or chose not to believe it. So there's nothing I can do.
Use your payment information
I don't have that. She is the one paying the bills. My bank account was never in any way connected to the phone/internet service at her place. All I did was hand her a check once a month with my rent + my share of the bills. And that is precisely why I cannot prove anything to anyone. To that phone company, I am a non-existent person. They don't have my name in their records. They only have an email address, which used to be mine, and still has all my private correspondence in it - but which I cannot access anymore. Now, if my ex-roommate was a different kind of person and wanted to help me, she would explain the situation to them herself, or give me the information I need, so that I could do it. But, if the recent turn of events is anything to go by, it's not going to happen.:(
Get another, new phone company and mail provider
I don't need a new phone company. I have a cell phone, and my new internet service is cable, so there's no need for me to pay for a landline. And of course I have a new email account. All I am whinging about is my old saved email, because I am a sentimental fool like that. You know, all the slash fiction from the Yahoo Groups, feedback for MY fiction, replies to LJ comments etc. I've been saving it all meticulously over the years, stacking it neatly into appropriate mail folders. And now it's all as good as gone, because my ex-roommate doesn't like me.:/
if you send your termination information to the company in written form, then they cannot insist that you should give the password, can they?
I have no idea - but I wouldn't want to terminate that account even if I could. I just want the contents of it back.:(
I hope I was able to clarify the whole thing. Oh, and btw, she is not using my email address (or at least I hope not... lol). We had separate ones, but they were both part of the same phone/internet account. And since one person can have multiple Yahoo ID's, there is no way for me to prove that I was actually a different person using one of them. Which is why she could kick me out of my mailbox so easily. I just never thought she'd be that mean - or I'd take care of the whole problem BEFORE I moved. There is a saying that some people are only wise after they have been fooled. Too true, I'm afraid.:(
Well... sorry for the looong rant, and thanks for trying to help anyway.:)