On Saturday 28 April 2018 20:43:06 dep wrote:
said Gene Heskett:
|There is no competing ISP available in your neck of the woods? And
| do those posts normally subjectable to copyright carry the notice
| that they are?
alas, no, frontier dsl is the only game in my neck of -- literally --
the woods. there's not even cellular service here, though at home i
can get tmobile cell over ip. as to copyright, that's not the issue.
people i'm writing about and who are giving me information sometimes
communicate via email and they would like that communication to be
confidential.
frontier has always farmed its email service out to yahoo, which is
frightening enough. but last year the email part of the rotting
remains of yahoo was bought up by a consortium of what's left of aol
and verizon to create something called "oath." last week they sent new
terms of use, in part:
I am on 2 or4 yahoo based mailing lists. This new TOS has NOT been
forwarded to me, and its scary as hell.
-- We’ve updated how we collect and use data. We’ve
updated some of
the ways we collect and analyze user data in order to deliver
services, content, and relevant advertising to you and protect against
abuse. This includes:
--Analyzing content and information (including emails, instant
messages, posts, photos, attachments, and other communications) when
you use our services. This allows us to deliver, personalize and
develop relevant features, content, advertising and services --
Linking your activity on third-party sites and apps with information
we have about you Providing anonymized and aggregated reports to other
parties regarding user trends -- We’ve joined Verizon. By joining
Verizon, Oath and its affiliates may share the information we receive
among Verizon. Learn more about Verizon’s privacy practices.
dont you just love that "protect against abuse" part? that's the same
company that managed to let the information on a *billion* users get
loose not long ago. no, thanks.
Yeah, corporate (yahoo/verizon/comcast/google et all are masters of it,
could teach a credit course on it even) propaganda, aka that stuff often
found, warm and squishy, on the ground behind the bovine specie.
so protonmail is essential. making it work with kmail
is to cause my
life to be nicer.
I can hear that, loud and clear. Silly Q: do they do mailing lists?
And how much per annum do they want for a paid service? Its sounding
better all the time from what I read on their site.
dep
Sent with [
ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because
privacy matters.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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