Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-17 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:25 AM, dos386 wrote: >> > > There is an assortment of web content that _requires_ flash >> > Isn't the Google document viewer among them ? AFAIK >> It is not. Look stuff up. > > I did. Last time I checked it pressured me to enable JS, when it > got JS, it asked for Flash

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-16 Thread dos386
> > > There is an assortment of web content that _requires_ flash > > Isn't the Google document viewer among them ? AFAIK > It is not. Look stuff up. I did. Last time I checked it pressured me to enable JS, when it got JS, it asked for Flash ... this was the EOD for me. -

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:24 PM, dos386 wrote: >> I do have the Adobe Flash player installed, but it's not involved in >> the transaction. The attachments in question are not SWF objects. > > But Google maybe translates them into SWF ... does the attach No, it doesn't. > viewer still work when

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dos386
> I do have the Adobe Flash player installed, but it's not involved in > the transaction. The attachments in question are not SWF objects. But Google maybe translates them into SWF ... does the attach viewer still work when you disable or remove Adobe Flash ? > There is an assortment of web con

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:52 PM, dos386 wrote: >> Email is the principal vector for _v_i_r_u_s_ delivery, but attachments all >> reside on Google's servers too, and never reach my machine. > > Funny ... True. You can't deliver a virus by a nasty attachment if the attachment never reaches the use

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dos386
> Email is the principal vector for _v_i_r_u_s_ delivery, by attachments all > reside on Google's servers too, and never reach my machine. Funny ... > Google has viewers for all common file types Really? How does it work? How do you see the file on Gooogle's server? Maybe you have the ADOBE FLU

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-07 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:22 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009/02/debunking-a-myth-if-you-have-n.html And none of the issues pointed to are inherent to electronic databases. The problems mentioned have occurred for as long as records have been

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-07 Thread TJ Edmister
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:03:15 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Rugxulo wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney >> wrote: >> >>> My usual response to worries about privacy is "You *wish* you were >>> important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pa

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-07 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney wrote: > >> My usual response to worries about privacy is "You *wish* you were >> important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pay that sort of >> attention to you. You aren't and they don't." > >

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > My usual response to worries about privacy is "You *wish* you were > important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pay that sort of > attention to you. You aren't and they don't." http://www.osnews.com/story/27101/NSA_collects_phon

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-06 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > I wouldn't recommend gmail as google scans your messages too. > Http://digitalatoll.com offers email that is private and secure but is not > free. I personally don't *care* that Google scans my mail. The scanning is done by algorithms, not h

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, AFAIK, Google's machines (not people) automatically scan your messages to better target ads at you. They don't keep any private data (or at least not beyond minimal legal limits). My ISP is AT&T, formerly Bellsouth (whom AT&T bought out, among others). Even they (Bellsouth branch) switched

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Evans
The privacy of yahoo email users will decrease on July 1st when yahoo will begin more aggressive ad scanning of your messages stored on their servers. I even noticed a new ad format that looks like it is part of your inbox list but its a sponsered ad. I would recommend switching to other providers

[Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:21 PM, James Collins wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) Just for the record, here's "yet another" poor Yahoo! sap who's been compromised by spammers. Sad, but oh well, what can you do? (Change your password or use a different provider, I guess.