[u3aavcuss] Re: Betty's Slow PC & Web Based E-Mai
- From: "Michael Sanders" <m.a.sanders.hp23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: u3aavcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:14:18 +0000
Hi Margaret,
I would be amazed if Googlemail sold information directly traceable to you
or to me.
However there is strong evidence that some of the advertising links that
appear beside the e-mails are influenced by the contents of e-mails
received. I don't mind this, as long as I don't start receiving unsolicited
e-mails as a result of other genuine e-mails.
I notice that you use Hotmail which I believe to be another 'free' Web Based
E-Mail provider.
At the end of the day, you have to ask why anyone would go to all the
trouble of providing you with a 'free' e-mail service, unless there was
something in it for them. As they say, there is no such thing as a free
lunch!
Happy Ney Year to one and All.
Regards
Mike Sanders
Margaret crafts <mcrafts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Mike
> Having read your comments re Web-mail, ie google I wondered if what I
> remembered about Google analysing and using the information in people's
> stored e-mails didn't 'happen' I also thought they were going to sell
> information gleaned.? That's what put me off
> Margaret Crafts
>
>
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> From: Mike.Bean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: u3aavcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [u3aavcuss] Re: Betty's Slow PC & Web Based E-Mail
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:33:59 +0000
>
>
> This note from Mike Sanders got tied up in FreeLists over Christmas ...
>
>
>
> Further to the recent discussions about Betty's 'slow computer' and Ron's
> comments about the benefits of using a Web based e-mail service.
>
> I have recently moved my e-mail activities from BT Yahoo to Googlemail and
> am only sorry that I discovered Web E-Mail so late in my career. I have web
> storage space for over 7GB of e-mails and the service is absolutely free! I
> do not have to worry about backing up my important e-mails, because Google
> does this for me.
>
> Since changing to Googlemail I have realised one other great advantage and
> that is that if I want to change my ISP, my Googlemail E-Mail address will
> remain unchanged. I have also been led to believe that Google's Spam
> filtering is second to none.
>
> I think that with the possible exception of AOL as an ISP, everyone else
> could use a Googlemail e-mail account alongside their existing e-mail.
> I hope this is of some interest.
>
> Christmas Greetings to one and all.
>
> Mike Sanders
>
>
> 2008/12/17 Ron & Rosemary M - U3A <ronandrosemary62-u3a@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Following Mike's discussion about Betty's slow computer I thought you
> > may be interested in my experience of Microsoft Outlook. Having used
> > this for
> my
> > email for many years I too found that having deleted all my incoming
> > mail the files were still taking up a large percentage of at that time
> > a rather small hard drive. Firstly I cleared out the in-box, no
> > improvement. Then
> the
> > outbox and to my surprise this contained a huge number of emails I had
> sent
> > and never thought of deleting. Again this made no improvement.
> > Eventually
> as
> > Mike said I twigged that they were not actually deleted but placed in
> > the trash can. Clearing this out released no end of disk space and
> > make quite
> an
> > improvement. From then on I decided to use an Internet based email
> > browser rather than load them down onto my PC. As I was using BT
> > Broadband I used BT-Yahoo that comes with the package. I think most
> > Internet providers have something similar. BT-Yahoo has improved over
> > the years and and is now
> much
> > like Microsoft Outlook but with the advantage that none of my everyday
> email
> > ever gets saved onto my hard drive and I can pick up my mail on any PC
> > linked to the Internet. I use a number of alias email addresses that
> > get filtered off into folders such as U3A, Family and Friends,
> > Shopping and
> best
> > of all one for Aylesbury Freecycle. On writing I have just deleted
> > 1394 email from the Aylesbury Freecycle folder and then from the trash
> > can. The shopping folder has no end from Tesco, Argos, Amazon and even
> > Delia
> on-line
> > and if I want, these can be sent into electronic oblivion at a single
> click
> > with hardly a thought, leaving me to savour my personal email at leisure.
> > One small word of warning, BT-Yahoo do not seem to have a limit on the
> > volume of mail I keep (at least I haven't found it yet) but Virgin
> > Media
> for
> > example have rather a low tolerance. If you fill up your Virgin mail
> > the whole thing comes to a grinding halt that will not even allow you
> > to
> delete
> > the excess mail yourself. Then you have to speak to the very nice man
> > in Bangladesh who you haven't a hope of understanding.
> >
> > Best wishes to all for Chrstmas, Ron M :-)
> >
>
>
>
>
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