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.
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ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
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DPDarkPrimus
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Durandal
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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.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
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'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.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
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Durandal
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- Joined: 2002-07-03 06:26pm
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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.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
