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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: |
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> > Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I |
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> > think. I think this will make it so that I never have to change email |
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> > addresses when I switch ISPs and will get the same service regardless |
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> > of who I connect to the internet with in the future. This is a long |
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> > term fix to my email switching issue. |
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> Use Gmail rather. It's cheaper - can't get cheaper than free - and just |
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> works better. Plus their anti-spam measures are very very good. I get |
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> about 1000 spams a month and average about 2 or 3 false positives and |
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> false negatives a month. |
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This may be true, but... don't we Gentooers tend to focus on security and |
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privacy? |
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Google stores emails (the user's own and all that others send him) forever. |
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Even if you delete them. You cannot get them back, but Google can. And they |
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not only store the data, they analyze it. And if you allow your browser to |
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use cookies, Google can connect your whole search history with your email |
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address and th econtent they extract from your mails. |
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This is spooky. Such things I do not want, and even if I would care, all the |
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other persons sending email to me might. Some might even choose not to send |
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email to me at all. |
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http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ |
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http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html |
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Wonko |