Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Texting with a PC:   
      
    RW>> I'd rather preview it at Yahoo's email than store it on my own   
    RW>> computer. Over the years while using various email software,   
    RW>> I've found that keeping old messages on Yahoo's servers is much   
    RW>> safer and in doing so, I don't need to keep email virus   
    RW>> software around to check it, as Yahoo does that for me before   
    RW>> I'm allowed to download any part of it or all of it.   
      
    EV> My Email comes through Yahoo! also but I'd rather have it where I can   
    EV> read it any time without Logging On to webmail.   
      
   I prefer not having any email stored on my system. It is very safe where   
   it is.   
      
    EV> I make backups so I know if this PC's HDD goes belly up I still have   
    EV> my messages up to the point that I last made a backup.   
      
   LOL! The only way I'd lose any email is if Yahoo's servers went belly up   
   before they got around to backing up their servers. Which they probably do   
   every hour on the hour.   
      
    EV> We're just different, and that's alright.   
      
   That makes the world go round.   
      
    EV>> I like keeping the messages I receive on my computer instead of   
    EV>> loading up the Webmail Server.   
      
    RW>> Although I have 300G of HD space, I don't want to keep that   
    RW>> sort of thing on it.   
      
    EV> My HDD is a bit smaller, 224GB on the C: partition but it still has   
    EV> 121GB Free Space.   
      
    RW>> I just recently opened a DROPBOX account that allows me to keep   
    RW>> everything I wish to have on their servers, leaving my HDs free   
    RW>> of clutter.   
      
    EV> I am sure DROPBOX will stay around for a long time.   
      
   Or it may go away at the drop of a hat. When I closed my Facebook account,   
   I didn't bother to retrieve any of the photos or movies I had there, since   
   they already reside on a thumb drive and a 1 Tbyt remote HDD.   
      
    EV> I just remember reading ages ago about some people who had a Email   
    EV> account with somebody and that Email Company went out of business   
    EV> and shut down.   
      
   Yahoo is in the same business as Google and both have the largest email   
   systems in the world. There is also MS's forever present Hotmail...   
      
    EV> The folks who had used that service lost everything precious to them.   
      
   Kinda like losing a HD.   
      
    EV> ALSO   
      
    EV> Around my area in the early 1980's (before I had a computer) I heard   
    EV> that two people started up a Dial-Up BBS and after it got popular   
    EV> they shut it down.   
      
   That sounds familiar. America On Line (AOL) comes to mind.   
      
    EV> Then they went to COMPUSERVE using their users Names and Passwords to   
    EV> see if they could access their accounts, and if the BBS password the   
    EV> user used was the same as their COMPUSERVE password they started   
    EV> buying lots of stuff for themselves that got charged to their BBS   
    EV> users credit account.   
      
   There are dishonest people in all walks of life. Leaving credit account   
   passwords on any system not in your control is foolish.   
      
      
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    if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."   
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    explaining anything.   
      
      
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