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CJ01

07-02-2003, 06:44 AM

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CJ /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Whitehall

07-02-2003, 06:50 AM

It\'s free - you get what you pay for.

franki

07-02-2003, 07:51 AM

I also use a free Yahoo email account and they far better than Hotmail. I like them mainly because of their effective Spam Guard.

Whitehall

07-02-2003, 07:54 AM

I agree, Franki, Yahoo mail is pretty good for the price - free. I\'ve had two accounts for years. The spam guard works well-enough too.

CJ01

07-02-2003, 09:02 AM

I have a yahoo one too. It is pretty good I agree. Trouble is I also have a hotmail account I rely on but hotmail´s gotten so crap it´s unbelievable. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif CJ

Sexyredhead

07-02-2003, 09:19 AM

I have yahoo and hotmail. The yahoo is for friends. The hotmail has become my junk mail addy. I\'ve taken myself out of the directory FOUR TIMES, and I still find myself there every once in a while. It\'s nothing for me to get 50-100 junk mails a day, and that\'s not in my junk mail folder! It\'s ridiculous! If I didn\'t use it for my default addy when posting to sites that need an email address (amazon, here, etc), I would get rid of it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Sagacious1420

07-02-2003, 02:14 PM

I\'ve used both in the past and didn\'t care for either very much. I used to use a local ISP, but since I got MSN ME w/ my current puter, I had no choice but to use their ISP. MSN kept bumping me off-line and tried to force me to use MSN\'s ISP, instead. Now that MSN provides me w/ a local dial-up, I use MSN 8, just to make life easier. Is Bill Gates satan or what? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

SRH-

I have had to set up my own spam magnet, as well. Usually don\'t get quite as many as 100 junk mails a day. MSN has ubdated their junk filters, so at least I don\'t end up w/ all of this spam in my inbox. But it does take forever to clear my junk folder...wish they had an \"empty trash\" option for the junk folder, as well. Whaddayagonnado? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

belgareth

07-02-2003, 02:28 PM

Don\'t your service providers offer pop 3 e-mail as part of the service? I thought most did. If they do, you can use Outlook as your e-mail client and it has great filters. The beta version of Outlook 2003 has even better filters and a great rules wizard. Spammers don\'t have a chance. I\'ve recieved maybe four junk mails since setting it up. The rest are auto deleted before I ever see them.

franki

07-02-2003, 02:31 PM

I think many use Hotmail or Yahoo, just because they don\'t want everyone to have their \"real\" email addy and track them down. :-)

belgareth

07-02-2003, 02:50 PM

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I think many use Hotmail or Yahoo, just because they don\'t want everyone to have their \"real\" email addy and track them down. :-)

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That\'s what filters are for, to delete the e-mails from people I don\'t want to hear from. It\'s so much easier than dealing with a crappy e-mail service like Hotmail or Yahoo.

franki

07-02-2003, 02:52 PM

The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

belgareth

07-02-2003, 02:55 PM

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The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

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Isn\'t that the same point?

franki

07-02-2003, 02:57 PM

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The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

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Isn\'t that the same point?

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Don\'t know, maybe I misunderstood your post? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

belgareth

07-02-2003, 03:02 PM

We\'re probably misunderstanding each other. No problem as it doesn\'t really matter. The only thing I use my Yahoo account for is as a test bed when working on a client\'s computer/network. It gives me an easy way to test their mail application without a bunch of configuration changes. For my own use, the freebees are a little primitive, they don\'t have all the whistles and bells that keep me from looking like a complete illiterate. I need all the help I can get with spelling and grammer.

krtel

07-02-2003, 04:40 PM

I use it. I don\'t seem to have any problems at all. FYI. I\'m an active user.

- Krish

Elana

07-02-2003, 04:41 PM

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I use it. I don\'t seem to have any problems at all. FYI. I\'m an active user.

- Krish

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Oh poor, sweet Krtel. Even the spammers aren\'t writing to you. Give me your email and I will drop you a line. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I don\'t want you to feel lonely

DaVinciKittie

07-02-2003, 04:42 PM

I refuse to rely on \"online\" email accounts- you know, the ones that force you to either check your email through their site via your browser or charge you to upgrade so you can use use your own program (pop/imap), and then they spam the hell out of you. After I graduated from college and had to find a permanent email address I did some research (I know- shock) and found this one...

http://www.fastmail.fm/ (\"http://www.fastmail.fm/\")

It\'s what I use now and I never have any problems. I don\'t get spam, I have plenty of storage and bandwidth, I can check my email via my own program (imap) or through my browser, and it\'s completely free. They put a tiny little advertisement tag at the bottom of your emails (outgoing I think) but it\'s really small and I never notice it when I forward things to myself. You can also check your pop email (like hotmail) through it and there are all sorts of domains you can choose from (like @elitemail.org, @mail-central.com, @speedymail.org, @sent.com, etc). Anyway, check it out if you\'re looking for a more dependable, less irritating email provider (I sound like a commercial. I swear I\'m not associated with this company! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif).

Sexyredhead

07-02-2003, 04:43 PM

Why do I use hotmail and yahoo?

1. I move around too much and have friends in too many far-flung places to have to worry about changing my email addy all the time. Yahoo and Hotmail can stay pretty consistent.

2. I like Yahoo. Only 2-3 spams there, ever. *knock on wood*

3. I like the virus check on yahoo and hotmail, because it\'s an internet server, and they\'ll be downloading the virus to themselves rather than ME.

krtel

07-03-2003, 05:13 AM

lol, I do get spam, but in a very tiny amount. It isn\'t hotmail that spams you, it\'s when you give out your email address to so many places that you lose track, is when the spam starts. My email is in my profile.

- Krish

Sexyredhead

07-03-2003, 06:12 AM

I realize it\'s not hotmail that spams you. But a lot of companies that send out spam check the directories for email addresses, and the fact that hotmail keeps putting me back on it when I marked that I didn\'t want to be in it is what annoys me.
I give my email address out to very few places, believe it or not. But a lot of places sell email addresses, then you probably get put on a list like you do with junk mail. I\'ve had that hotmail address for 10 years, btw, so just think how many places would have it by now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

franki

07-03-2003, 06:16 AM

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I\'ve had that hotmail address for 10 years, btw, so just think how many places would have it by now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Really? Wow.. There weren\'t much people online back in 1993.. In those days, the internet was something special. Nowadays, every Joe Blow is on the web. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Sexyredhead

07-03-2003, 06:22 AM

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I\'ve had that hotmail address for 10 years, btw, so just think how many places would have it by now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Really? Wow.. There weren\'t much people online back in 1993..

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I wasn\'t surfing the net much then, except to check my email. There were LOTS of people with email back then. You\'re just too young to remember it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

franki

07-03-2003, 06:25 AM

I remember I was 13 when I first looked at porn, so it must have been 1995 when \"we\" first got it.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sexyredhead

07-03-2003, 06:29 AM

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I remember I was 13 when I first looked at porn, so it must have been 1995 when \"we\" first got it.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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I was 20 in \'95... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I remember sitting in a college computer lab in \'93 and being astounded at the internet--first time I\'d ever seen it.

Mtnjim

07-03-2003, 09:02 AM

\"I remember sitting in a college computer lab in \'93 and being astounded at the internet--first time I\'d ever seen it.\"

So did anyone ever Gopher??
I think there might even still be a few Gopher sites around.

CJ01

07-04-2003, 08:20 AM

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I remember I was 13 when I first looked at porn, so it must have been 1995 when \"we\" first got it..

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I was younger /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif CJ

Sagacious1420

07-04-2003, 06:35 PM

CJ-

It\'s OK! You aren\'t the only one! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

BassMan

07-04-2003, 09:13 PM

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\"I remember sitting in a college computer lab in \'93 and being astounded at the internet--first time I\'d ever seen it.\"

So did anyone ever Gopher??
I think there might even still be a few Gopher sites around.

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Back in the day...

I Gopher\'ed. A lot. I started messing with on-line bulletin boards in 1981, on a TRS-80 Model 3 with a 300 baud modem with the phone cups (remember those?)

I had Internet back in the late 80\'s when it was still batch transfers and email was routed with bang paths (anyone remember bang paths?) And LONG before anyone had thought of a \"world wide web\".

I had one of the last public access unix systems in the country - type \"vicstoy\" into a browser. Here is my nixpub listing from 1994:

03/94 407-299-3661 vicstoy Orlando FL 1200-2400 24
ISC 386/ix 2.0.2. Partial USENET, e-mail (feeds available); Login as
bbs, no passwd (8N1); Free shell access; Orlando BBS list, games;
cu to Minix 1.5.10 system (weather permitting); USENET includes
Unix/Minix source groups. Contact: uunet!tarpit!bilver!vicstoy!vickde
or vickde@vicstoy.UUCP (\"vickde@vicstoy.UUCP\") (Vick De Giorgio).

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CJ01

07-05-2003, 09:15 AM

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CJ-

It\'s OK! You aren\'t the only one!

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Yeah, I know /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
CJ