[tde-users] Re: Centralised EU censorship blocks mails !?

said Gianluca Interlandi: | Just wondering, is the issue with internet service providers (ISPs) | blocking the e-mails or is it the e-mail service companies? In the | latter case, would it solve it by switching to a different e-mail | service, e.g., from GMX to gmail or similar? The email situation in general is a mess, whether from some outside provider, from the ISP, whatever. I was reasonably happy with my ISPs service until they farmed it out to the molding remains of AOL and Yahoo (fronting for Verizon) who when they took over sent out a notice saying that they'd be combing through everything to find anything they could sell, and by using their service we agree to their doing so. (At least they did send the notice; most places hide that stuff in legalese 14 links into the privacy statement on their websites.) That day I switched to ProtonMail -- I've never been back to the ISP's mail at all. I chose a paid version because I wanted to move my domains over to them and because I wanted the then-beta ProtonMail Bridge, which is a big wad of stuff that lets me use my preferred mail client, in my case KMail; those two features are not available to free accounts, where one needs to use their webmail or something like the standalone ElectronMail webmail emulator. Those two things work very well, but have shortcomings: they make local mail archive storage problematic, and they make anything but top posting sheer bloody hell. But something like that is all that there is nowadays. Or the kind of thing that has been discussed here involving GPG or the like, which is effective if everybody is onboard. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/