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Yahoo! should so not cave on this issue. The email account doesn't belong to the family, it belongs to the dead guy. If he really wanted his family to have access to it, he should've used his head and given them the password. I know I don't want my family butting into my email when I'm gone. (I do want them butting into my LiveJournal, assuming it's still up, and posting that I've died. This is why I've told them that, specifically, and told them how to find the password.)

Oh, and there's editorials too: Yahoo! should shed the cold hearted poise. Stop sticking to the rules and work closer with the family toward a solution.

Cold hearted poise? What about "caring sensitivity towards the needs of the customers"? We don't know that this guy wanted his family to have his emails - for all we know, there's tons of porn in there! They should let things lie, and not press into their son's private life.

At this writing, Yahoo says it must abide by its subscriber privacy rules. But a soldier's last words to his family would seem to fit an almighty exception; the one case where breaking the rules is right and just and necessary.

Until they get the damn email account, and find out that there's lots of stuff in there they didn't want to see. Complaints about how "mom is always looking over my shoulder, even half a world away", talk about the cute guy in the mess hall, admissions that "yes, I did it, I killed Mr. Boddy in the dining room with the candlestick, it was me!". It's not just letters to the family.

And a poll.

Gee, I'm bored.