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Date: | Sat, 31 May 1997 16:43:20 -0600 |
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True but GEOCITIES also offers the option to use POP3 to retrieve your
mail. mail.geocities.com is where I retrieve mine and never even heard of
WWW service until now! :)
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Alperin, Glenn wrote:
> Hotmail is exclusively reading e-mail through a web page. It also has the
> added benefit of instant translation of binary files recieved on accounts
> there, or ability to download those files if you are not on an adequate
> browser. BVeing as I can not recieve binary files at my main address,
> [log in to unmask], without them becoming impossible to download and
> translate because of the strangef mail headers which get attached to my
> mail there and because the e-mail suystem is totally inadequate for
> downloading files effectively anyway, hotm,ail is simply a better choice
> for those purposes. I wouldn't use hotmail for anything else though as
> password security is a big issue for me and to get into hotmail, or
> geocities or many other free e-mail providers, you fill out a form which
> contains the password attribute hiding the password from your screen but
> sending it over the web in straight text format with no encryption. It is
> the same with geocities as well. Both use the web as their gateway to
> e-mail.
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> Glenn
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