On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 13:20 -0400, David Boles wrote:
Roger Heflin wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>
> Hotmail I would probably agree with, but both gmail and yahoo provide
> higher end paid for service if you want it, and both yahoo and gmail are
> sub-contractors for a number of ISP's mail systems.
>
> I am on gmail because my ISP's email had enough issues that I kept
> getting unsubscribed from various lists (I assume because of funny
> bounces).
>
> My ISP has now fixed that issue by making some sort of deal with gmail
> for gmail to provide their mail service .... but I might as well use
> gmail directly since that email address will stay around for a lot
> longer than the one through the ISP's gmail connection.
My story is basically the same as your's Roger. I use gmail POP, with
Thunderbird, because my ISP provides poor service and their SPAM filters are
crap. I can filter the SPAM here of course, and do filter what gets through,
but it annoys me to download it in the first place.
It is using Gmail online that causes the rich text. Gmail defaults to that and
it is *not* obvious to the writer nor is it clear just how/if it is disabled.
For some anyway.
As for Ric? Don't mess with him too much. He's crazy. ;-)
Huh? Who told?? <grins insanely>
Besides being crazy, I get iRaTe at times with poor ISP service,
misquoted fees and various sundry issues that may cause me to switch. No
matter to me, as I have pop service from Gmail and my email address has
yet to change. AND RedHat used Google in-house, from the day of Google's
inception. We were urged to use their search services back in 1999-2000.
This was back when Matthew was just coming on board, IPO, etc.
So, Google has a very long close relationship with RedHat. If guilt
through association has context here, so does Fedora. Without going
crazy here, I fail to see just how maintaining a relationship with
Gmail, which has never failed me, equates to "hiding". I use what works
for me and it's never cost me one dime. :| Ric
--
----------------------------------------------------
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256 Sign up at:
http://counter.li.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar
https://oar.dev.java.net/
Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339
-----------------------------------------------------