This may have happened when they upgraded the mail server. If you hadn't noticed, all free Yahoo accounts now get 100M of storage. Normally, I can access mail within a few seconds, but it would take me 2-3 minutes to get a page to load... if it loaded at all. In the meantime, I still receive spam in my inbox, with OBVIOUS spam subject lines... despite their "improved spam filter". I have concluded (without proof, though) that this is due to 2 reasons: 1) They sell "holes" in their spam filters to companies willing to pay to reach their users. How else to explain the non-fltering of messages with "GENERIC V!AGRA!!!CHEAP!!!" as the subject line. Subject line all caps? Yes. Word similar to "viagra"? Yes. Multiple exclamation points? Yes. Message is dated 3 days in the future? Yes. "From" line is forged Hotmail address? Yes. Spam message? No: deliver to inbox. 2) They let spam messages through on purpose, as way to aggrevate you into purchasing Yahoo!Plus: their paid email service with "improved" spam filters.