Gosh, what a witty, insightful and original use of exclamation marks in the title of this post. I hope future articles on Yahoo! follow this convention, because otherwise I might forget this clever jape.

Chris - I (and I assume many other readers) find the exclamation marks amusing.

Your post was so sarcastic I'm not sure if you're actually being ironic or new to The Reg.

Oh no, wait...

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Yahoo! denies! China! claims! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/yanoo_denies_china/)

Yahoo! faces! investigation! over! China! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/06/yahoo_china_committee_investigation/)

Yahoo! profits! drop! slightly! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/17/yahoo_q2_07_results/)

Yahoo! Unveils! New! Banner! Ad! Engine! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/yahoo_smartsad_unveiled/)

Yahoo! loses! sales! head! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/yahoo_sales_chief/)

Yahoo! buys! Rivals! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/yahoo_buys_rivals/)

Yahoo! Europe! upgrades! ad! platform! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/01/yahoo_platform_cto_goes/)

Yahoo! Shouldn't! Sell! To! Microsoft? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/yahoo_interview/)

Yahoo! launches! mobile! search! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/yahoo_onesearch/)

Yahoo! searches! abroad! for! online! gambling! riches! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/07/yahoo_gambling/)

Yahoo! buys! ad! exchange! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/30/yahoo_buys_right/)

Yahoo! China! sued! in! US! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/yahoo_china_sued/)

Yahoo! email! unlimited! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/yahoo_email_extended/)

Yahoo! search! goes! mobile! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/20/yahoo_moby_search/)

Yahoo! can! help! jail! Chinese! dissidents! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/15/yahoo_privacy/)

Yahoo! red-faced! over! curry! blog! ripoff! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/yahoo_curry_row/)

Yahoo! false! alert! drama! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/01/symantec_yahoo_false_alarm/)

Yahoo! net! plummets! in! Q4! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/yahoo_q4_2006_earnings/)

Belgian! newspapers! warn! Yahoo! over! links! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/22/belgian_newspapers_warn_yahoo/)

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And that's just THIS YEAR'S RESULTS!

Chris! Purcell! seems! to! have! missed! that! point! also! it! is! still! funny!

This! has! been! the! convention! for! a! long! while! now! as! loyal! Register! readers! will! attest! to! Occasionally! it! is! forgotten! but! it's! nevertheless! an! established! staple! of! Registerdom! Besides! that! it! makes! my! speech! synthesiser! get! all! excitable!

Cheers!

Sabahattin!

Ok everybody, lets all point at the newbie and laugh...

You're new around here, and that is not a question. I suggest you do a quick search for Yahoo on this site - you'll find that your suggestion was already taken into account about five years ago.

Gosh, El Reg can see five years into the future ! Now I know !

where u bin? Don't notice it any more - I agree it is tedious tho'.

Who cares about the exclamation marks...err, sorry, who! cares! about! the! exclamation! marks!? !

The key item is whether they did it. I suspect they did, but to a degree it's something which cannot be avoided. If your staff in a particular country feel patriotic, even to a blood-soaked commie state, then you cannot in the end stop this stuff being passed over. The key item is whether Y! management approved, and if they did, were they fired afterwards?

After five years, Luke and Andy still find the same joke funny. That explains syndicated cartoons.

Glad my fellow regulars are capable of detecting sarcasm, by the way.

I play the Google card to prove it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.theregister.co.uk+Chris+Purcell

Unfortunately for a site that tries to maintain a certain level of humour, many of its readers, and some writers, would be incapable of recognising sarcasm and irony if they glassed them in the face.

What's the difference between China requiring records from Yahoo! and the US requiring records from SWIFT?

Some people forget that "way back in the day" The Register was created as a satirical send up of IT. Even the byline (bitting the hand that feeds IT) is a clever pun that escapes many readers.

Yahoo! publishes! Paris! Hilton! iPhone! pix!

There, I believe that's today's trifecta.

Yahoo guy to the press: "We believe deeply in human rights"

That's it. Lock 'em up.

If you don't know the difference, you should be at Dailykos, not the Reg.

Fucking anon pussy! (never a good idea, you don't know where it's been)

Anyway.. who gives a fuck about exclaimation points? The Punctuation Nazis? Do you lose sleep over the billions of mis-spelled txts flying around the air without the benefit of your expertise?

Get a fucking life you stupid ass. Fucking morons.

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Yeah, it's one of those days.