Kosher Email

What horrible pictures? I’ve been using Yahoo! mail since before Google existed and don’t recall seeing any.

If the concern was avoiding pictures, we could use PINE mail. It’s all text. Indeed, a frum company could set up a server using PINE (its a UNIX program). It runs very fast, and runs even on the weakest machines. It even runs well on a dial-up connection using DOS.

That’s one of the reasons I use gmail.

even if youre not jewish yahoo is horrible, especially their spam filter (among other things) thats in addition to the the problems for jews

the goq you had me rotfl

Thanks Thisname 🙂

“you must be using the paid version”

I am. Cost for spam-free and porn-free email: $19.95/year. Real benefit: Priceless.

My apologies to those who I may have offended. I’ve been using the pay version for so long that I didn’t realize that the free version is designed to be offensive.

Some people run businesses via a yahoo e-mail address and switching to gmail means you will lost customers (as they know you by e-mail address) and suppliers know you by e-mail address

Its not so simple to switch then.

My grandmother uses a yahoo account. If you would get an email from her, would you really think there’s something wrong? She has that address for many years, and it’s not so easy to move over to a new one.

FWIW, I, too have a paid Yahoo account. I’ve had it since 1999. I’m a digital pack rat and have every email ever sent to me*. I’m certainly not switching now.

The Wolf

* To clarify: If a person sent me an email that was not distributed to an entire list (i.e. my shul’s Z’manim list, for example) or spam or strictly commercial (like from stores whom I allow to send me email), then I keep it.

My mom has a Yahoo account for all of her spam.

What a funny coincidence. She also has all her spam because she has a Yahoo account. ???? ????

The goq, too funny!

I primarily use gmail but I do have a yahoo account because there is a yahoo community group in the town where I live and you can only get those email if you are logged into your yahoo mail.

Also what is an innaropriate headline?

I never had a yahoo mail account and I had no idea it is problematic. I assume those who say so are referring to webmail and free accounts and (questionable) advertising. Which anyway one can deal with. Most unwanted garbage (ie the sort that arrives on the screen without a user looking for it) is removed by using a hosts file, such as mvps (you can google mvps hosts).

Perhaps we all should realize that jumping to conclusions does not necessarily bring us to the correct conclusions. Even though k9 is quite good (but requires powerful hardware and is not very suitable for budget machines) it has false positives, even in categories that one would think are well-defined. Monitoring software can have false positives as well: an example? Someone beyond suspicion had in their log a connection to a well-known website we do not use (I do not mean FB or twitter or yahoo). Turns out someone had ran on the machine a utility for choosing a fast DNS. That utility measures the times it takes for various public DNSs to resolve a list of “most frequently used websites”, including some of those we don’t use. To do so, of course, it connects to the domain name.

Yes, adblocking plugins should also work (we have to download a plugin for every browser we use). They all have basic blocking lists and in addition it’s possible to block any unwanted content for future navigation.