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What E-mail Service Do You Use?
G-Mail 43%  43%  [ 12 ]
Hotmail 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
Outlook 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
AOL 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Yahoo 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
Thunderbird 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Hushmail 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
ProtonMail 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Other 21%  21%  [ 6 ]
Total votes : 28

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22 Oct 2015, 8:36 pm

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Do people really have just one e-mail account/service?
I've got one Gmail for "official" emails - employment/HR scans, health care, kids' schools contact.
And Hotmail, one of my first, will always be my spambucket.
I keep Yahoo out of inertia from when their Groups actually were a good alternative to USENET.
Plus a scattering on each & some others for use by online personas that would get me fired.
And along the way I've rolled my own when I've had ISP's that allow the ports.

Basically, I'm just too lazy to move/transfer/forward anything when a given service goes from "pretty good" to "we're getting ready to strip the corporation of any value"...


I'm curious, what is an HR scan?
I've never heard the term.


It's what our HR calls it anyway when they take the email (and any other info an applicant gives them) and check to see what they can dredge up in forums, listservs and the like - anywhere that email address might show up. I'm pretty sure all they do besides the usual background checks is google, check facebook, linkedin, etc.. When I was first hired, even having an account here would've been enough to get me fired (unofficially, of course) or not hired in the first place.

Thanks. :D
I assume all Corp's do something similar these days.


They'd be fools not to, considering the liability in some cases. Have you *seen* some of the stuff people post under their actual name?


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22 Oct 2015, 8:48 pm

Switched to Protonmail. I am uncomfortable with it, but I am reasonably confident that I'll get used to it.


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23 Oct 2015, 2:31 pm

Edenthiel wrote:
slave wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
slave wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
Do people really have just one e-mail account/service?
I've got one Gmail for "official" emails - employment/HR scans, health care, kids' schools contact.
And Hotmail, one of my first, will always be my spambucket.
I keep Yahoo out of inertia from when their Groups actually were a good alternative to USENET.
Plus a scattering on each & some others for use by online personas that would get me fired.
And along the way I've rolled my own when I've had ISP's that allow the ports.

Basically, I'm just too lazy to move/transfer/forward anything when a given service goes from "pretty good" to "we're getting ready to strip the corporation of any value"...


I'm curious, what is an HR scan?
I've never heard the term.


It's what our HR calls it anyway when they take the email (and any other info an applicant gives them) and check to see what they can dredge up in forums, listservs and the like - anywhere that email address might show up. I'm pretty sure all they do besides the usual background checks is google, check facebook, linkedin, etc.. When I was first hired, even having an account here would've been enough to get me fired (unofficially, of course) or not hired in the first place.

Thanks. :D
I assume all Corp's do something similar these days.


They'd be fools not to, considering the liability in some cases. Have you *seen* some of the stuff people post under their actual name?


Ikr? :lol: :lol: :lol:
They are unbelievably careless, 'cyber-exhibitionists' as I call them.
Many vomit the entire contents of their mind onto social media without any filter or restraint.
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:lol:



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05 Nov 2015, 10:11 am

I primarily use my own mail server although I also still use a GMX address that I started using many years ago


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05 Nov 2015, 3:50 pm

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I primarily use my own mail server although I also still use a GMX address that I started using many years ago

I so miss the days of my prior ISP. They are a medium size outfit that buys bandwidth & addresses in bulk from AT&T, resells the last mile and adds so much service & services it'll make you cry. If you don't cause trouble they let you hang anything on your addresses you want, although they may need to open ports. I once called them & talked directly to a technician. In ten minutes we'd run the line tests & verified it was my "modem". They were only a couple miles away so he gave me a loaner. At 1 am. I bought a replacement at lunch the next day and dropped off the loaner on my way home from work.

A few years ago we moved to a town that ten years ago split itself and gave two companies each a monopoly over half. One is AT&T-based, the other is Comcast. We live four houses on the wrong side of the line. I can't even get a business account at our address from Comcast b/c we are too far into the residential area. And everyone on our street shares the same bandwidth, so some evenings feel like the good old days of dial up.


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05 Nov 2015, 7:33 pm

Edenthiel wrote:
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I primarily use my own mail server although I also still use a GMX address that I started using many years ago



A few years ago we moved to a town that ten years ago split itself and gave two companies each a monopoly over half. One is AT&T-based, the other is Comcast. We live four houses on the wrong side of the line. I can't even get a business account at our address from Comcast b/c we are too far into the residential area. And everyone on our street shares the same bandwidth, so some evenings feel like the good old days of dial up.


the 'free' market :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
aren't monopolies handed out by a municipality illeg???....oh never mind...c'est la vie :| :| :|



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05 Nov 2015, 8:41 pm

Hotmail is my main email service despite people saying that googlemail is the most secure and yahoo being the least secure.

Hotmail = personal, business, financial, news

Gmail = games, spam, surveys, marketing

Yahoo = private, spam, marketing, junk, but also my backup which uses a fake personal file



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05 Nov 2015, 10:16 pm

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Edenthiel wrote:
CrazyLunatic wrote:
I primarily use my own mail server although I also still use a GMX address that I started using many years ago



A few years ago we moved to a town that ten years ago split itself and gave two companies each a monopoly over half. One is AT&T-based, the other is Comcast. We live four houses on the wrong side of the line. I can't even get a business account at our address from Comcast b/c we are too far into the residential area. And everyone on our street shares the same bandwidth, so some evenings feel like the good old days of dial up.


the 'free' market :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
aren't monopolies handed out by a municipality illeg???....oh never mind...c'est la vie :| :| :|


Interestingly, since ISP's were recently classified as common carriers, we may see much more of this sort of thing.


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06 Nov 2015, 11:59 am

Edenthiel wrote:
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Edenthiel wrote:
CrazyLunatic wrote:
I primarily use my own mail server although I also still use a GMX address that I started using many years ago



A few years ago we moved to a town that ten years ago split itself and gave two companies each a monopoly over half. One is AT&T-based, the other is Comcast. We live four houses on the wrong side of the line. I can't even get a business account at our address from Comcast b/c we are too far into the residential area. And everyone on our street shares the same bandwidth, so some evenings feel like the good old days of dial up.


the 'free' market :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
aren't monopolies handed out by a municipality illeg???....oh never mind...c'est la vie :| :| :|


Interestingly, since ISP's were recently classified as common carriers, we may see much more of this sort of thing.


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18 Nov 2015, 9:23 am

GMail usually, I have one Yahoo account that I have mainly for eBay.



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06 Dec 2015, 7:20 pm

Yahoo. I have gMail too sense I have an Android phone but I hate the design of it.


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08 Dec 2015, 9:51 pm

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It's what our HR calls it anyway when they take the email (and any other info an applicant gives them) and check to see what they can dredge up in forums, listservs and the like - anywhere that email address might show up. I'm pretty sure all they do besides the usual background checks is google, check facebook, linkedin, etc.. When I was first hired, even having an account here would've been enough to get me fired (unofficially, of course) or not hired in the first place.

That's terrifying. I'm SO paranoid about this kind of thing and the horrible part is I know I'm behind the times and not as paranoid as I should be. I was once snooped on by someone doing an "unofficial" check on me who found my posts at an old book review site I used to go to, etc and it really freaked me out. Is there a way of stopping people being blue to snoop on you like this?
I'm also thinking of getting rid of hotmail since they changed it to "outlook" and recently redesigned the layout without even giving the option of keeping it how it was. It now forces you to open/look at the first email in the inbox, and I'm well known for avoidance. I don't want to be forced to read emails if I don't want to just by going into the inbox. But I'm stuck on an iPad and I can't seem to get it off "mobile view."


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It's what our HR calls it anyway when they take the email (and any other info an applicant gives them) and check to see what they can dredge up in forums, listservs and the like - anywhere that email address might show up. I'm pretty sure all they do besides the usual background checks is google, check facebook, linkedin, etc.. When I was first hired, even having an account here would've been enough to get me fired (unofficially, of course) or not hired in the first place.

That's terrifying. I'm SO paranoid about this kind of thing and the horrible part is I know I'm behind the times and not as paranoid as I should be. I was once snooped on by someone doing an "unofficial" check on me who found my posts at an old book review site I used to go to, etc and it really freaked me out. Is there a way of stopping people being blue to snoop on you like this?


Everything on the web by you or about you will never go away.

Those that are very young can control their info better IF they start off with the knowledge they need from the get go.

Those who vomited the contents of their mind onto the web before understanding that it will be used against them are...well...fvcked.

All employers and officials can and will data mine your behaviors/posts/searches/fears/desires/musings/etc...of that you can be certain.