Several Years ago Novell put of an interesting webmail site called MyRealBox.
Rather than using it as a revenue generator as Google did, or as a way to harvest email addresses to sell to Spammers as Hotmail did, they use it to beta test their email software. So they warn you that there will be periods where things change (I've seen 2 or 3 different revisions to the clients in the past 4 or 5 years), and there will be periods where the beta is bad (there have been a few of these too, where things crash all over the place for a few hours). A year ago, MyRealBox also gave the largest free email boxes too, but they've been eclipsed by gmail, and I doubt if they really care. As far as I know, this is the most privacy friendly, free website around. There are also no annoying ads at the bottom of every sent email "This came from hotmail". It's a good concept, and I've always liked them. Unfortunately, they aren't accepting further subscriptions. It'll be interesting to see if they run a similar site so they can demo open exchange on Suse. Again, that would be something that benefits everyone. They get a demo site of several hundred thousand active users. Users get familiar with their software, making a purchase much more likely. Users get free email. The end products are better tested and more secure when they first come out. Everyone wins, and privacy doesn't need to lose. Kev. On Tuesday 02 November 2004 10:08, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 07:46, Jeffrey Clement wrote: > > I'm curious why you say Google doesn't care about your privacy? What > > makes > > for instance, they search it to provide targeted ads and have said they > reserve the right to do just that. > > is this any better/worse than any other free webmail? i wouldn't be > surprised if the answer is "no", and i didn't say that it was any worse > either. just that they don't respect one's privacy. > > i simply noted that everyone's clamouring for access to a mail site that > doesn't even respect your privacy and which has created an artificial sense > of scarcity and therefore heightened demand. i find that humorous, except > for all the "wanna invite?" msgs i've received since gmail went up which i > find as funny as the rest of the spam i get. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
