Re: gmail now officially stink

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: gmail now officially stink
Date	2017-10-25 09:57 +1100
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"Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:oslpp8$1hrr$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:osgqgi$1et5$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I refuse to use an Email service that reads my mail,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Its free to read mine that I do with gmail.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm sure it is. But it's also free for Google,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the NSA, etc. to read everything too.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nope, they can't do that.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Yes they can,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Nope, not from mine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well I suppose you could be using end-to-end encryption,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nope, I don?t.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So it's only trust that causes you to believe
>>>>>>> that they can't and don't read your mail?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nope, its fact that they have never ever sent me any
>>>>>> advertising based on something in my gmail emails.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd want some more concrete proof
>>>>> that they can't/don't read my emails.
>>>>
>>>> You have always been completely and utterly irrelevant.
>>>>
>>>> What you may or may not want in spades.
>>>>
>>>> I never said that they can't, I JUST said that they clearly don?t
>>>> read mine and send me any advertising based on what they
>>>> find in the emails and I wouldn?t care if they did anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm sure it is. But it's also free for Google,
>>>>>>>>>>>> the NSA, etc. to read everything too.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Nope, they can't do that.
>>>
>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> That isnt EVERYTHING, fuckwit.
>
> So what bits of your Emails do you know they can't read?

The stuff that’s encrypted auto, fuckwit.

>>>> I do get some ads showing up in facebook after I have followed
>>>> a link in a usenet link for say a yorkshire fitting or something and
>>>> I couldn?t care less about that and its completely trivial to avoid
>>>> seeing any ads like that anyway if I did care.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> but that wouldn't cater for many incoming Emails that I recieve.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Same for me.
>>>>>>>>>>> Google use it to provide targeted ads for one thing.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Not from mine. NOT ONE of the things I have ever discussed
>>>>>>>>>> in my gmail email has EVER produced a targeted ad for me.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and wants to know lots of personal information
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just to set up an account, in the first place.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Trivial to give it fake info. Same with facebook etc.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Possibly,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> No possibly about it, absolutely certainly in fact.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> but it wanted a phone number from me, and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that's the sort of thing they use to confirm
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that you're not giving them fake details.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Pigs arse it is.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ebay (or maybe it was PayPal) called the phone
>>>>>>>>>>> number I gave them to confirm that it was mine.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Even terminal fuckwit such as yourself should be
>>>>>>>>>> able to get a burner number you can use for your
>>>>>>>>>> fake details, if someone was actually stupid enough
>>>>>>>>>> to lend you a seeing eye dog and a white cane, again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> They didn't call me when I registered, they called me later on,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They've never called me and presumably would
>>>>>>>> email you if they get no response or suspend
>>>>>>>> your paypal until the phone answers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Email is no proof of identity on it's own (hence why they call).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Calling is no proof of identity either.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's linked to your identity if you didn't cheat the system when
>>>>> you got it.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Suspended PayPal (or Email) is something I'd want to avoid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Never happened to me. I have had a debit card suspended
>>>>>> because of what StGeorge said was suspicious activity for
>>>>>> cents. They claimed to have tried to call me, but they stuffed
>>>>>> that up somehow. No record of them ever doing that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> so I'd have to keep that number permanently active just in case.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nope.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Seems like a lot of trouble just to use a free Emailservice
>>>>>>>>> anonymously.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They've never called me, so it isnt.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But if they ever do try to call, you might have to change your Email
>>>>>>> address.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nope.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll shop elsewhere.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And get a worse result when you are that stupid.
>>>>
>>>>> Plenty of options for free Email are out there,
>>>>
>>>> None anything like as good with automatic spam filtering.
>>>
>>> Filter it yourself if you need it that much.
>>
>> Not even possible to do that anything like as well as gmail does.
>>
>> THEY get to see who dumps loads of identical shit into the system.
>>
>> No individual ever does.
>
> That's why there are spam block lists made publicly available.

gmail does a lot better than that.

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