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New Tempting, but...
It's nice having an e-mail account with a tiny ISP that isn't mining my e-mails for targeted ads. I mainly use Gmail for mailing lists. If I direct everything to Gmail anyway, there's little sense in me continuing to pay $19 a month to keep my account with my small ISP (since I don't use his dial-up service any more).

I'll do some more reading and cogitating.... Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Is it *REALLY* that important...
to have ultimate privacy?

Remember, unless e-mail messages are encrypted with GPG/PGP/WTFever its plain text and readable.

Considering the petabytes of e-mail Google has to "index" is *YOURS* that important?

These cries of privacy invasion... ok, tell me the last time you had a secure conversation on the internet via forums or the like?

How much of your mail is spam? How much of you e-mail is truly highly private? Are you *THAT* important? Come on, you use a cell phone and don;t complain that you can be triangulated at any time, or eavesdropped on or the fact that all of your internet traffic is probably being scanned in one way or another for various purposes or what about the ISP you are using doing traffic shaping because you use too much of a specific kind of traffic...

There are FAR FAR FAR worse invasion of privacy things that you have just accepted and let happen without care (maybe not without care, but what you don't know *CAN and DOES* hurt you)... But I guess bike-shedding is your style on this type of thing.

Give me a break.
New Hit a nerve, did I?
You may have me confused with someone else. :-)

You make good points, and I'm aware of those things. I'm not a privacy nut - I don't worry about cookies, for example (though I do use SBS&D to clean out things occasionally on my Winders machines).

I get around 300 pieces of e-mail a day, about 99% of it is spam. (I know you get a lot more.) My ISP doesn't filter anything, AFAIK.

I just need to do some more thinking before I do anything irreversible, like give up an e-mail address that I've had for about 17 years.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Heh. He said "bike-shedding". ;-)
New my email at netscape is the same way
Ive had it forever, people can still find me that way
all mail is shared between sytems is clear text unless you encrypt it before you send it.
if you want to aggregate it any imap client is fine
     Setting up a Maildrop on Ubuntu or Debian. - (Another Scott) - (12)
         To be honest... use IMAP anyway. - (folkert) - (9)
             what he said -NT - (boxley)
             Thanks. - (Another Scott) - (5)
                 Here is an idea... - (folkert) - (4)
                     Tempting, but... - (Another Scott) - (3)
                         Is it *REALLY* that important... - (folkert) - (2)
                             Hit a nerve, did I? - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 my email at netscape is the same way - (boxley)
             you dont want to use a viral contact list like plaxo? -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                 Feh! Plaxo-what? - (folkert)
         I'll second the IMAP angle. - (static) - (1)
             Thirded. - (pwhysall)

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