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Re: chat
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: George <d1945 at sbcglobal dot net>, The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:12:13 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: chat
- References: <20051229173031.67701.qmail@web35914.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051229191844.GA1752@home>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, George wrote:
> [snip]
> But allow me to take this opportunity to suggest that I can't be the
> only one rewriting procmail recipes to strip yet another iteration of a
> Yahoo! spam! footer! that's slipped by.
>
> > __________________________________________
> > [snip Yahoo! ad footer]
>
> Are email accounts so hard to come by, or is the "free" part to be
> subsidised by recipients? Or maybe there's something so nifty about
> using web mail that I just don't get?
One thing that's nice about using the web mail is that a) it's accessible
from anywhere, and b) it stays with you as you change companies. Oh, I'm
sure the same could be said about some other mail providers, and Yahoo!
does offer a premium (paid, ad-free) mail service, but this is where the
"free" part comes in...
Igor
P.S. The '!' is actually part of the official company name. It's the only
one in the footer, FWIW.
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