long time lurker, very rarely a poster. please don't hold that against me. I am adding an address that is only used for 1 other person, so if I get spammed I will know where it came from iamprecious2000@yahoo.com I will miss you. I understand poor Spike's predicament and if I can come up with $15, will join. Money is extremely tight now, though, so it may not happen. I feel like I know you all personally and, in case I don't hear from you again, may you be blessed. Bye to all. Julie

If you cancel a Yahoo broadband contract here in the U.K. you can keep your email account providing you access it at least once every 90 days using dialup. I don't know about other countries. If you forget they send email reminders before closing the account. If you log off again quickly it is a minimal cost - just a nuisance. Colin

some options to try, I have not used yahoo in years, but these are some things I might try. How to Export Your Yahoo! Mail Address Book Try to do an export of the address book to see if possibly they are there and will export, just save it to your desktop or pc somewhere. another thing to do is in your sent files look there in some of the emails you sent for your addresses in the To field of the emails. Especially any that you might have sent to a large number of your contacts. Contact Yahoo! Mail Support talk to support they may be able to restore it. same directions but with pictures How do I export my Yahoo Mail address book? also you might try searching your pc for an existing "yahoo.csv" file, if you have one open it and look at it that could be one you had saved.

Bee you can keep your yahoo address but use a different email client to fetch all your yahoo mail and display it in their email format, you can also select to have any mail you are sending out from that new email client send it as the from address being your yahoo address. No one would know you had changed and you would not have to go through that hassle. I have that feature set up on some of mine I have kept some of my old email addresses active that way but never actually go there and use them. For example that gmx one is super easy to set up and use, it will not change a thing on your yahoo account so don't be afraid to do it because you think it may mess that up. It will then list on the gmx account your yahoo account and when you click on that you see all of that mail, it will also your gmx account and any mail etc you have in it. Most of the major players offer this option just because people dread having to make all those changes and notifying everyone. Plus if you decide you don't like it and don't want it just drop it, they are all free so why not give them a test drive. And it is usually very easy to copy your address book over also. this article covers this for gmail accounts, as I said most of the major ones can do this. Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail