StarDestroyer.Net BBS

http://fury.com/article/1990.php

I'm signing up ASAP, since as someone noted on google, to grab simple screen names rather than the stuff like john324234234@gmail.com

About the privacy: Who cares? It's automated, and anything of real need for privacy would be encrypted with GPG anyway.

So when can we sign up?

Well, Google hasn't quiet said when yet. Note that while they haven't added a link to the main page, the address is gmail.google.com

Yeah, when can I sign up to have my entire Inbox categorized and sorted by Google? I like how they keep your mail even if you cancel your account. No thanks; I value my privacy.

Um... it's kind of hard to completely erase something when you have tons of backups, and have it replicated over a bunch of drives scattered all over their place. According to a whitepaper somewhere, their distributed filesystem favors appending over overwriting. Files are deleted lazily too.
I'm betting Yahoo or anyone else may have copies of your email on some backups somewhere.


Anyway, at least they are up front about it. If you can't trust them to make sure no humans read your mail, you shouldn't trust any mail provider either and run your own server (then again, most broadband providers are very anally retentive about this, and AOHell blocks these . The internet is a very bad place for paranoid tinfoil hat types.

And again, I repeat- ENCRYPTED EMAIL
For account signups you can use a different mail provider.

I'd love to use encrypted mail, but no one on my recipients list supports it, and I'm not about to give everyone instructions on how to properly use PGP or GPG to see my emails.

Pu-239 wrote:Anyway, at least they are up front about it.

Agreed.