On Saturday 28 April 2018 20:43:06 dep wrote: > said Gene Heskett: > |There is no competing ISP available in your neck of the woods? And > | do those posts normally subjectable to copyright carry the notice > | that they are? > > alas, no, frontier dsl is the only game in my neck of -- literally -- > the woods. there's not even cellular service here, though at home i > can get tmobile cell over ip. as to copyright, that's not the issue. > people i'm writing about and who are giving me information sometimes > communicate via email and they would like that communication to be > confidential. > > frontier has always farmed its email service out to yahoo, which is > frightening enough. but last year the email part of the rotting > remains of yahoo was bought up by a consortium of what's left of aol > and verizon to create something called "oath." last week they sent new > terms of use, in part: > I am on 2 or4 yahoo based mailing lists. This new TOS has NOT been forwarded to me, and its scary as hell. > -- We’ve updated how we collect and use data. We’ve updated some of > the ways we collect and analyze user data in order to deliver > services, content, and relevant advertising to you and protect against > abuse. This includes: > > --Analyzing content and information (including emails, instant > messages, posts, photos, attachments, and other communications) when > you use our services. This allows us to deliver, personalize and > develop relevant features, content, advertising and services -- > Linking your activity on third-party sites and apps with information > we have about you Providing anonymized and aggregated reports to other > parties regarding user trends -- We’ve joined Verizon. By joining > Verizon, Oath and its affiliates may share the information we receive > among Verizon. Learn more about Verizon’s privacy practices. > > dont you just love that "protect against abuse" part? that's the same > company that managed to let the information on a *billion* users get > loose not long ago. no, thanks. Yeah, corporate (yahoo/verizon/comcast/google et all are masters of it, could teach a credit course on it even) propaganda, aka that stuff often found, warm and squishy, on the ground behind the bovine specie. > so protonmail is essential. making it work with kmail is to cause my > life to be nicer. I can hear that, loud and clear. Silly Q: do they do mailing lists? And how much per annum do they want for a paid service? Its sounding better all the time from what I read on their site. > dep > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because > privacy matters. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
