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From: John Browning <seakayakerjb_at_aol.com>
subject: [Paddlewise] I Did It!
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
  This might be interesting for u 
http://www.bestbohemianbeads.com/info.html
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From: Kirk Olsen <kork4_at_cluemail.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] I Did It! (yup another cracked account)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:41:27 -0400
Sigh.  Another aol account with a weak password.  For anyone using aol
or yahoo for email.  Make sure you have a decent password, unless you
want malware, or in this case a link to a viagra site, to be sent from
your account, to everyone in your address book.  Time to filter all
posts from Mr. Browning....

On Friday, September 23, 2011 3:06 PM, "John Browning"
<seakayakerjb_at_aol.com> wrote:
>   This might be interesting for u 
 <snip>
-- 
  Kirk Olsen
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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk_at_rockandwater.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] I Did It! (yup another cracked account)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:58 -0400
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:41:27AM -0400, Kirk Olsen wrote:
> Sigh.  Another aol account with a weak password.  For anyone using aol
> or yahoo for email.  Make sure you have a decent password, unless you
> want malware, or in this case a link to a viagra site, to be sent from
> your account, to everyone in your address book. 

I'll go one step further: avoid freemail providers if you can.  There
are serious issues with the quality of services from Yahoo and Hotmail
(and have been for a decade), AOL dismissed its entire senior postmaster
team last year, and Google seems much more focused on pushing its social
network initiatives than dealing with spam/phishing conducting from and
via its services.

Remember, you are NOT the customer of these operations: you are the product.
You'll likely do much better with an inexpensive but capably-managed email
account elsewhere.

---rsk
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From: Melissa Reese <willkayakforfood_at_gmx.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] I Did It! (yup another cracked account)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:41:22 -0700
Hi Rich,

On Monday, September 26, 2011, at 5:05:58 AM PST, you wrote:

> Remember, you are NOT the customer of these operations: you are the
> product. You'll likely do much better with an inexpensive but
> capably-managed email account elsewhere.

For free accounts, I don't mind recommending gmx.com. I've been using
them for years, and am quite pleased with the POP/SMTP service (also
have web based interface as part of the service). Accounts have never
been "hijacked" in any way.

Getting one's own domain name, and using it to host an email account
is another good option (I do this as well; my "willkayakforfood.net"
account, hosted by GoDaddy). This has become quite an easy and
affordable option, with the bonus of personally chosen custom
naming/options).

No need for Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Google (gmail), etc. (all represent
annoying--at the very least--privacy concerns as well).

Just so there's some paddling content in this post...

I'll be out for a long afternoon/evening paddle shortly. :)

-- 
Melissa
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From: Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] I Did It! (yup another cracked account)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:09:42 -0700
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Melissa Reese <willkayakforfood_at_gmx.com>wrote:

>
> For free accounts, I don't mind recommending gmx.com. I've been using
> them for years, and am quite pleased with the POP/SMTP service (also
> have web based interface as part of the service). Accounts have never
> been "hijacked" in any way.
>

I have moved several accounts from local hosts (at $15 to $25 a month) to
www.bluehost.com (at about $7 per month). In fact I recommend this (or
something similar) for anyone using Exchange as their in-office email box. I
can use bluehost as a domain forwarder and then set the office router to
deny any SMTP from all but bluehost. This makes me feel much better about
having Exchange on the Internet.

It should be noted that recently several large domain hosting services have
been cracked with several thousand domains and web pages defaced and/or
deleted. Nothing is 100% secure any more.

I have www.nwkayaking.net on bluehost (for the past 2 years) with good
success.

Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
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