Text 1030, 87 rader
Skriven 2014-03-13 19:33:07 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
    Kommentar till text 968 av Ed Vance (12645.windowsa)
Ärende: Texting with a PC
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 Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Texting with a PC:

 RW>> I'd rather preview it at Yahoo's email than store it on my own
 RW>> computer. Over the years while using various email software,
 RW>> I've found that keeping old messages on Yahoo's servers is much
 RW>> safer and in doing so, I don't need to keep email virus
 RW>> software around to check it, as Yahoo does that for me before
 RW>> I'm allowed to download any part of it or all of it.

 EV> My Email comes through Yahoo! also but I'd rather have it where I can
 EV> read it any time without Logging On to webmail.

I prefer not having any email stored on my system. It is very safe where
it is.

 EV> I make backups so I know if this PC's HDD goes belly up I still have
 EV> my messages up to the point that I last made a backup.

LOL! The only way I'd lose any email is if Yahoo's servers went belly up
before they got around to backing up their servers. Which they probably do
every hour on the hour.

 EV> We're just different, and that's alright.

That makes the world go round.

 EV>> I like keeping the messages I receive on my computer instead of
 EV>> loading up the Webmail Server.

 RW>> Although I have 300G of HD space, I don't want to keep that
 RW>> sort of thing on it.

 EV> My HDD is a bit smaller, 224GB on the C: partition but it still has
 EV> 121GB Free Space.

 RW>> I just recently opened a DROPBOX account that allows me to keep
 RW>> everything I wish to have on their servers, leaving my HDs free
 RW>> of clutter.

 EV> I am sure DROPBOX will stay around for a long time.

Or it may go away at the drop of a hat. When I closed my Facebook account,
I didn't bother to retrieve any of the photos or movies I had there, since
they already reside on a thumb drive and a 1 Tbyt remote HDD.

 EV> I just remember reading ages ago about some people who had a Email
 EV> account with somebody and that Email Company went out of business
 EV> and shut down.

Yahoo is in the same business as Google and both have the largest email
systems in the world. There is also MS's forever present Hotmail...

 EV> The folks who had used that service lost everything precious to them.

Kinda like losing a HD.

 EV> ALSO

 EV> Around my area in the early 1980's (before I had a computer) I heard
 EV> that two people started up a Dial-Up BBS and after it got popular
 EV> they shut it down.

That sounds familiar. America On Line (AOL) comes to mind.

 EV> Then they went to COMPUSERVE using their users Names and Passwords to
 EV> see if they could access their accounts, and if the BBS password the
 EV> user used was the same as their COMPUSERVE password they started
 EV> buying lots of stuff for themselves that got charged to their BBS
 EV> users credit account.

There are dishonest people in all walks of life. Leaving credit account
passwords on any system not in your control is foolish.


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