Sam,
I don't think anything dire was planned when webbox asked for your
password. I use the older www.startmail.com to access my e-mail on my
ISP via the web; to do that both username and password are required.
Webbox offers, somewhere, the ability to access up to 5 e-mail accounts;
the first one would have been the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So far, having used www.mailstart.com for a couple of months or so, I've
had no bad repercussions from providing my e-dress & password. I
haven't gotten any nasty letters accusing me of spamming or anything
like that. <G> I actually checked my mail using webbox yesterday ...
all I had to do was re-enter my password, since I'd logged off of
mailstart prior to switching over to webbox.
So I don't think providing the password should cause any problems;
neither username or password are saved, or I wouldn't have to enter the
data each time ... a cookie would tweak an automagic feed, right??
l.d.
P.S. I seldom recommend sites I feel might be hazzardous to computer
health.
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:23:12 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:20:24 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
>> Found this today ... didn't interest me until I read a bit more.
>> Notice one NICE thing: website "public" access to items marked "public."
>> Only 20Mb storage, but more than adequate for file transfers. And you can bet
>> it should be faster than e-mailing encoded files
<snip>
> Hello Arachnids:
> I checked out the site and my first impression was that it is a real good
> thing. I decided to sign up. As I was entering my information on the form,
> I came to a block that requested my private password for my email account
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Why should any one other than myself need to know
> that kind of information? My last impression was that it was a bad thing.
> So I abruptly aborted the sign up procedure and got out of there in a hurry!
> Sam Heywood
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