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Observations from a Verizon customer (emphasis is mine): -------- Original Message -------- > >Recently switched to Verizon's dsl service. Following experience should be >noted by present and prospective Verizon email users. > >Today, after returning from a 2 day weekend away from downloading email >from the server, got a warning mesage that my inbox (which holds 30 meg!) >was close to being full. > >Reason: my 'spam filter box' -- which I had disabled as it is useless >-- held 24 meg! of mail (basically copies of my inbox). As my 'spam >filter box' which is supposed to automatically be cleaned out every 2 days >has not yet been cleared, I was close to my limit. As I get about 130 spam >messages every 12 hours! such double counting of incoming messages by >Verizon can quickly fill up most user's inbox and start bouncing messages. > >The warning suggested that I go to Verizon's web based email >(netmail.verizon.net) to delete unwanted messages. I did that. > >What I found when I went there was not comforting. > >Unlike Yahoo, and other popular web based email providers, Verizon does >not provide a 'secure' sign in option to its web based email system. Nor >is its sign in automatically encrypted. Such ommision is hardly consonant >with Verizon's publicly stated concern for the privacy and online security >of its users. > ahp |
