03-13-14 19:33 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Texting with a PC   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <5324CFC2.12707.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW>  Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Texting with a   
    RW> 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.   
      
   Brer Roy.   
      
   My first Email experience was with Juno when it was Dial-Up.   
   I connect to it via the internet now but I only check the In-Box and   
   Junk-Box about twice a month JIC that old Address is still in someones   
   Address Book and they send me a message.   
      
    RW> I prefer not having any email stored on my system. It is very   
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> LOL! The only way I'd lose any email is if Yahoo's servers went   
    RW> belly up before they got around to backing up their servers.   
    RW> Which they probably do every hour on the hour.   
      
   I'm glad I gave you something to laugh about.   
      
    EV> We're just different, and that's alright.   
      
    RW> That makes the world go round.   
      
   Blessed Are Those Who Run Around In Circles Because They Shall Be   
   Know As WHEELS! - No Chapter or Verse.  I'm a BIG WHEEL!   
      
    EV>> I like keeping the messages I receive on my computer instead of   
    EV>> loading up the Webmail Server.   
   -snip-   
    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.   
      
    RW> Or it may go away at the drop of a hat. When I closed my   
    RW> Facebook account, I didn't bother to retrieve any of the photos   
    RW> or movies I had there, since they already reside on a thumb   
    RW> drive and a 1 Tbyt remote HDD.   
      
   A friend of mine told me She has a Grand-Daughter (GD) who took lots   
   of photos of Her (GD's) Mother (our friends Daughter) on a cellphone   
   from a Rental Company.   
   One day the GD decided to  return it to the Company without anyone   
   thinking about having someone take the photos off of it.   
   The Girls Mom passed away and all the pictures are gone now.   
      
   My friend sure wishes her GD had done as You have by keeping those   
   photos on a thumbdrive.   
   But most cellphone users are not Technical type folks as We Are Here.   
      
   All of the photos I take with my Digital Camera are Saved to this HDD.   
   I keep multiple Full Back-Ups JIC I ever needed to Restore what is on   
   this XP box,   
   If the latest one would fail, I hope the Child Back-up works.   
      
   Recently, I got one of those 3TB External HDD and one thing I don't   
   like about it is it saves the back-ups I put on it,   
   in one B-I-G Chunk.   
      
   My usual plan is to just Copy the sub-directory the new back-up is in   
   to Another External HDD so I have a Duplicate.   
   (As Tom says: "Belt And Suspenders")   
      
   I will have to go back to making my BU's to the drive that I used B4   
   getting the 3TB'er so I can Copy from it to the new drive.  :-(   
      
   It'll take the same time to do a BU (and DUPE), but me seeing the whole   
   BU in one piece really surprized me when I first saw it on that drive.   
      
   I didn't notice the new drive was NTFS, vs. FAT-32.   
   I just looked at the box the drive came in and it doesn't say what   
   Format was on it, it only says it can be used with Windows7 as is,   
   and MacIntosh users will have to ReFormat it.   
      
   My XP box has USB 2.0 ports, the 3TB drive is my first USB 3.0 device.   
   -snip-   
    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.   
      
    RW> That sounds familiar. America On Line (AOL) comes to mind.   
      
   Some of the people in my Email Address Book use AOL for Email.   
      
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