On 25/10/13 15:01, Ted Byers wrote:
On Friday, October 25, 2013 02:28:17 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
On 25/10/13 14:11, Bob Williams wrote:
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On 25/10/13 12:40, AP wrote:
Hello, (This is where the use of gmail, or similar, should be BANNED. If one has to hide behind anonymity/false names then they do not deserve any time to spent on them.)
BC That is a bit extreme Basil.
Which is, of course, a subjective opinion :-) . I have held this view for 27 years now since I ran my first BBS and I shall not be swayed from this view.
How then do you distinguish between those using gmail to hide from those who use gmail because it is more useful than any ISP known to the user? I am an example of the latter. I do not use any ISP's email service, in part because of the aggravation associated with changing ISPs that causes: and that aggravation increases geometrically with the size of your contact list.
I don't understand. As I stated elsewhere (or was in here, in another thread?), is this something to do with the way ISPs operate in America? I use Thunderbird and it has a massive Contact list but this has nothing to do with my ISP (or rather ISPs because I have changed ISPs over the years). The only role my ISP has is that it receives my mail, holds it for me until I pick it up with TB and the ISP's server then immediately deletes that mail once I collect. The ISP has nothing to do with my Contact list. The list is on my computer, in /.thunderbird, and not on the ISP's server. Hence my comment that I don't understand what you are trying to say above.
And I am not prepared to buy a domain name, along with a certificate for it (given the practices of places like GoDaddy and the ease with which one can set up a certificate authority, even this isn't a guarantee of identity), and then learn how to safely install/enable/configure my own mail server. Would you ban me because I find use of gmail more useful than an ISP's service and don't know how to run a mail server in a secure manner?
Again, who is trying to make you run your own mail server? Certainly not me. My ISP here in Australia is iinet.net.au with whom I have an account; thru this account I send and receive e-mail as well as Newsgroups (although the latter are now hardly ever used). In other words, the ISP is my post office. Simple. Doesn't this sort of arrangement exist in America? Or is that everybody is brainwashed to use gmail and yahoo and whatever-else-there-is for mail activity? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org