Text 9357, 47 rader
Skriven 2010-07-21 11:44:54 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
   Kommentar till text 9355 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Good, free email addresses in the States
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Wednesday July 21 2010 at 09:19:

MV>>> That sounds to good to be true. So where's the snake in the grass?

RB>> The site is blocked for people with IP addresses in Germany, Austria
RB>> and Switzerland. Maybe for others except the USA, UK, Spain and
RB>> France as well.

MV> It is not locked from here.

Can you register for a free email account there, or do you only get a page with
an option for entering your existing gmx.com account (to proceed to gmx.com)
and a request for German-speaking people to go to gmx.de? In Germany, you can
_not_ access the gmx.com website directly.

RB>> I used Tor to change my IP to an American one to inspect the
RB>> situation.

MV> Is IP spoofing legal in Germany?

What's legal anywhere nowadays?

MV> I once had a Yahoo e-mail address. Never got advertisement e-mails.
MV> Not a singke one.

And it was a webmail address, no POP3 unless you agree to the advertising
messages. I had that too. When I stated I didn't want the advertising messages,
the POP3 access was blocked.

RB>> Naturally they try to sell you everything imaginable if you go to the
RB>> website, but after you have an account and use POP3 or IMAP, that's
RB>> no irritation.

MV> What is the added value over using you ISP provided e-mail address?

You're independent. Can change addresses at will, change providers at will. And
of course, you can organized "throwaway" addresses for suspicious sites.

I have a provider address now, but never use it myself, only get my bills that
way, and a few times a year am spammed (sometomes with messages with these
"claudia_shiffer_naked.jpg.com" attachments). Otherwise I use a freemail
address.

Cheers, Bob

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