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Re: Ugh said by pnh102:said by caco:Email problems happen to everybody. If I recall Gmail was down a couple of months ago for a couple of hours. I guess the solution is to have more than one email address. True, but why pay for an email system with problems when you can get it for free? Because free providers will eventually sneak in more and more "targeted advertisements". The next step is that they start scanning the contents of the email for keywords so that they can deliver the right ad.
Nothing is ever "free". If you don't pay with it through money, you are likely paying with some privacy, or the false expectation thereof.
Google and its products is one of the greatest example of a major company who doesn't deal in selling a product, but in selling information. Information which partly comes from you, the consumer using it.
If you want to have a relatively secure, private email that you can also move around with at random, register your own domain, and host it with a good POP hoster. Will cost ya $25-30 a month, including the $10 a year it costs for the domain, and you are free to move your email anywhere. On top of that you can move the physical domain to a hosting provider in Canada, Europe, etc.... just in case you start to feel unsafe in the way the government is snooping on you thanks to the Patriot Act and such things.
In any case, in this case "free" isn't always better, it just doesn't cost any money. Privacy issues however is a whole different ballgame, and companies like Microsoft, Yahoo en Google - the three big "free" mail providers - are quickly becoming Information Dealers. Your information.
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| GMAIL uses the email addy and header to advertise to you. I see that all the time. It is at the top and I don't even see it anymore since I know to ignore it.
Comcast is worse. My mother wondered why she was getting ads at the portal so I told her. She wasn't happy. She called Comcast and nicely told them about it. She said she doesn't see them anymore. So, Comcast does have an opt-out. I was there a month ago and didn't see them. |
