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Originally Posted by Hitch
Wow, here's an idea: maybe she should STOP expecting to get FREE bloody email. Nothing like someone who uses free email services, and then bitches about how they're used, eh?
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I don't offhand recall how she was getting email at the time. It was likely delivered by POP from her ISP, stored locally, and read in an email client on her machine. She was having various issues at the time that made her question her self-worth, and a level of paranoia seemed to come with that.
I've given up expecting any sort of understanding of how the stuff we use daily actually works. Too few people even try to find out.
I did that back when, downloading via POP from the ISP's server and reading/replying in Outlook (for compatibility with employers who also used it.) I learned the hard way that versions of Outlook back then behaved very strangely if the mailbox.pst file where your mail was stored grew over 2GB in size. (The symptoms were new mail not getting delivered and duplicates of existing mail breeding like cockroaches.)
Gmail was a revelation. No worries about mail bouncing because I was traveling, couldn't check mail from elsewhere, and my Inbox on the ISP server filled up. My mail store is a database, living on Google's servers, and searchable through standard Google techniques. I could have it downloaded via POP and read it in a local client, but don't. I prefer to read it online in my browser, and don't
need a local copy. I can check it from anywhere I have an Internet connection and a current browser.
And I no longer
care about spam, because I almost never see it. Google has the best spam filtering I've ever seen, and perhaps one new piece of spam hits my Inbox every two or three weeks. Click Report Spam, and I don't see mail like that again.
I have Outlook here but haven't used it in years, This makes me happy.
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Dennis