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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:51:21 -0500 |
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Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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Hi Dale, |
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> After getting things switched over, I hope this will make things |
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> easier in the future if I need to switch ISPs or something. My |
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> questions are: 1: Does anyone know of a reasonably priced dial-up ISP |
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> that does not have a monthly limit? Does anyone see anything |
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> wrong/weird with my plan? Maybe something I need to add in? |
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I tried both AOL and GMail and both annoy me to some extend. They both |
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provide free IMAP access, and work "fairly well". I always felt the AOL |
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servers to be pretty slow (when using imap), and i hate the way |
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googlemail saves your E-Mail thrice in it's own, duplicate folder |
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structure (which doubles or triples the size of your local imap cache). |
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This might be reasonable for people accessing the service only through |
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their webinterface, but is annoying when using an external client. |
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The thing that most irritated me after a while are the free provider's |
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privacy terms. Google may archive and index *all* your mail (read: |
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SPAM, everything) for eternity. AIM (as well as google) claims all |
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content to be submitted via their services as their intellectual |
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property (this counts for ICQ also, btw, use jabber!). This is |
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laughable from a juristic point of view, but i find the attempt in |
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itself reason enough not to use their services. There was this funny |
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article linked on slashdot last week |
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(http://valleywag.com/5044902/the-5-most-laughable-terms-of-service-on-the-net). |
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I don't know about Yahoo! specifically in this respect, but I don't |
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expect them to be any better. |
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After some search i stumbled upon the relatively new freemail provider |
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Lavabit (http://lavabit.com). Their service is very promising, privacy |
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is most important. Connections to their server exclusively use |
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authenticated SMTP and they offer pop3 and imap over SSL. There are |
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free, free with ads, and two paid ($6 or $18 p. year) service models, |
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each with their own limits. Most important for me was their free IMAP |
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support. You might want to check out their page wether it suits you. |
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I am very content with their service, even if you don't get an |
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unlimited storage space at their servers. Google does this because |
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they can afford it (wasting our precious resources) and in turn mines |
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all that data for personalized ads, search, and whatnot. |
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Regards, |
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Patric |
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