If you use Yahoo!, I highly recommend you switch to Gmail. Their email service is, well, "losing ground". They've had numerous issues with spam over the years, and it hasn't improved much.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Jordan Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerickson@logicalnetworking.net" target="_blank">jerickson@logicalnetworking.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is pretty cool. With the normal Slashdot reading came a surprise to<br>
me today when they mentioned our area's very own Sonic.net in the EFF's<br>
government privacy report. The report examines 18 major ISPs and rates<br>
them on how they handle customer privacy when it comes to "the man"<br>
asking for private information. We should be proud to have such an<br>
honorable Internet provider's headquarters right in our area.<br>
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>From Executive Summary:<br>
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"The Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of 18 major<br>
Internet companies — including email providers, ISPs, cloud storage<br>
providers, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly<br>
commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user<br>
data. We looked at their terms of service, privacy policies, and<br>
published law enforcement guides, if any. We also examined their..."<br>
(More: <a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-back" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-back</a> )<br>
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Also on Slashdot:<br>
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<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/03/2155225/worst-companies-at-protecting-user-privacy-skype-verizon-yahoo" target="_blank">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/03/2155225/worst-companies-at-protecting-user-privacy-skype-verizon-yahoo</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jordan Erickson<br>
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