Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
10 Aug 2013, 12:41 AM
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Replies: 301
Views: 184,603
United Police States of America
The current news about government spying, tracking, tracing, and storing digital communications with more bad news coming every day, has validated every single fear many of us had about the police...
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Forum: Early Warning...
10 Aug 2013, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 14,953
Yahoo
Yahoo is playing "hardball" with its email account users now that its user base has plummeted due to poor service and turning account holder's info over to the government? Yahoo was once a great...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
9 Jun 2013, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,180
Mail scanning
There is a universe of difference between a email provider, especially a free email provider scanning user's emails for revenue and marketing data and a governmental authority wholesale scanning...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
9 Jun 2013, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,391
Prism
Eric, I don't think the federal government, not exclusive to the NSA by any means, bothers to abide by any legal constraints or prerequisites, warrants, subpoenas, etc and just taps into whatever...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
7 Jun 2013, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,717
IRS unconstitutional surveillance
AMEN!!!
This agency exists, not to collect revenue, but to harass, intimidate, and abuse people and violate citizen's constitutional rights. Apparently, now it has been revealed that the entire US...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
5 Jun 2013, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,180
Yahoo Mail
It seems the new CEO of Yahoo, the same hare-brained dope that demanded employees working from their homes for this former internet giant, now come into work, going against the trend to telecommute...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
1 Jun 2013, 02:56 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,717
Government tyranny
What the IRS is doing, as well as almost every other US federal government agency, is not only privacy invasion, which isn't defined by constitutional law, but a violation of a citizen's 4th...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
1 Jun 2013, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,179
Best interface?
Of the four mentioned, I prefer Squirrelmail because the interface is stable, customizable, and in advanced versions, has nice little utilities. What I look for in the appearance of a webmail...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
8 Feb 2013, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,357
Facebook
I wouldn't use Facebook if I got paid for it by giving up personal information for the privilege. Facebook's founder is chin deep in government alliances and backroom deals to snoop and inform on its...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
8 Feb 2013, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,736
Inbox.com
Inbox.com deleted my account after years of membership for no reason and without apology or explanation or excuse such as insufficient logins or misuse. I theorize that they simply wanted to purge or...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
13 Dec 2012, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,975
Yahoo Mail
The only changes in my Yahoo inbox is the thankful removal of all the links to website utilities I neither use or want in my mailbox and the annoying pop up IM dialog box from unknown/fake contacts...
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Forum: Early Warning...
13 Dec 2012, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 13,635
Umail.net
Unfortunately, often when a free email service is listed here, even one that has been around for some time; it folds because of increased signups that the system cannot handle and the administrators...
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Forum: Early Warning...
29 Nov 2012, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 13,635
Umail.net
Webecedarian, you might want to try umail.net, a Ukranian based free email service. The site and mailbox is in English. It's fairly plain and uses challenge/acknowledgement features to fight spam. I...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
25 Oct 2012, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 713
Everyone.net required password changes
It seems Everyone.net has decided to force all its users to change their passwords to a 8-20 character format requiring the new password to contain letters, numbers, and non-alpha-numeric characters...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
4 May 2012, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,875
Email vs. Mail
It's long past time that email be given the same legal protections as physical "snail" mail, both of which are private communications between private individuals or groups which amount to both...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
17 Feb 2012, 11:34 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 21,326
Google, Gmail, etc
I think the point being dismissed or overlooked by some regarding Google's "new" privacy polices is that these policies have pretty much done away with privacy as we have known it for all intents and...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
15 Feb 2012, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 21,326
Google, Gmail and Google TOS changes
It seems this post is a moot point since as of March 1, 2012, if I correctly understand Google's new policy updates regarding Gmail accounts; Google will simply be caching Gmail account user data,...
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Forum: Early Warning...
1 Feb 2012, 04:32 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,010
Fusemail
Fusemail never was that great, lost my saved files, had numerous account and login problems, and only offered 100MB of storage for free accounts. No big deal.
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Forum: Early Warning...
7 Jan 2012, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,702
Mail2World
Mail2World hasn't worked for me in about a decade, literally. I never got the size upgrade that was promised and normal mail operations stopped working after about a couple of years. My account is...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
6 Jan 2012, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,657
Web.de
Unfortunately, as Jeff referenced, a download is required to take advantage of the 500MB inbox which in 2012 is itself incredibly inadequate considering the inbox size of other free email services....
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
2 Dec 2011, 01:21 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,146
The future of email and digital communications
If this trend continues, traditional email as we have come to know it will shrink drastically to exist only among the major players who will continue to offer it as a part of their web suite...
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Forum: Early Warning...
16 Nov 2011, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 40,457
Mail.com
I think the guts of Mail.com (on the GMX template) needs to be completely overhauled and redesigned. Regardless of the computer or the browser, the Mail.com interface is far too slow and antiquated....
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
19 Oct 2011, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,213
Google cookies, etc
Google adsense cookies and scripts make slower computers crawl and even if you use ad blocking programs or browser add ons, this equals trading less ads for slower processor clock speed and a heavier...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
19 Oct 2011, 07:57 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,142
The cloud vs. the ground
If you want adequate security and freedom from theft and misuse, I'd suggest storing important info and emails offline instead of trusting it to the cloud, ie: online storage. For non-essential data...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
19 Oct 2011, 07:45 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,626
Everyone.net
In a word, yes. I still use quite a few old Everyone.net email accounts even though the sponsoring service no longer supports it and even after the sponsor announced an end to the service. In cases...
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