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Old 05-23-2004, 08:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
Pragma
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Originally posted by Jolt
why are you so anxious to sign up with a mail provider that searches your incoming messages and displays ads on your screen based on context of what it finds?
Every online e-mail provider searches your incoming messages - though they do it to try to get rid of viruses. Furthermore, SMTP is an unencrypted protocol, meaning any messages you send get transferred across the internet in plaintext - so you really don't have that much privacy to start with.

Besides, I've got my own e-mail accounts for anything important/private - it'd be fun to have a 1GB free e-mail account, though.
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