I love new experiences and products in this business, but I think you have to be comfortable using them, that's cool too
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:33 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]> wrote: > No more dinosaur than I am. I too use it only at home due to blockage at > work, normal POP/SMTP protocol downloaded to the home machine, no use of the > ISP web space for mail. Not using cloud for backup yet, still do not trust > it. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of ibmmain > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT - disappearing responses > >> Why all this web mail stuff? Doesn't anybody actually use their ISP's mail >> servers with an actual mail client sending and receiving the mail on their >> PC anymore? > > I do. Unfortunately only at home, email clients cannot go through the > firewall at work. Although I don't use the ISP's mail server, I use the > normal POP3/SMTP protocol associated with an email id. Admittedly, it has > become very hard to even find their setup instructions these days. They are > well hidden, as the provider of a free email address wants you to use their > web interface so you get bombarded with their ads so they make money. > > I also don't store my email somewhere in the cloud, i.e. don't use web space > from the free email address indefinitely. But then, I am a dinosaur. > > Barbara Nitz > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
