(OT) Did you get an email from me?

[Dustin]

"Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <rhondaleakirk@earthling.net> wrote in
news:9l7k9oFr2sU1@mid.individual.net:

> I'm pretty sure that when I send to an new email address using Outlook
> rather than the web interface, Gmail saves the address for me in my
> contacts just as it does when I use the web interface. I'm equally sure
> that if I were to change my selection, it would stop doing so, no matter
> the interface I use.

Correct as far as I have been able to determine. I just didn't know this was
happening. I setup the account years ago. Enabled smtp/pop3, bookmarked a
url to redo the password for security (every few weeks ya see) and didn't
look back. That was a bad move on my part.

> But once someone has access to one's webmail account, it really doesn't
> matter. One way or another, once the account is hacked, all the mail one
> has sent and received is available for the use of the intruder.

Fortunatly, gmail hasn't been storing copies of my incoming emails (that I
could see), but it was keeping copies of outgoing emails. Another feature,
useful it could be, but.. not to me.

> Note to Dustin: I got one from your email address too.

I am very sorry Rhonda, I have honored your no contact request for years.
This was out of my control.


--
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many
people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only
thing that's wrong is to get caught. - J.C. Watts

[Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries]

Dustin wrote:
> "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <rhondaleakirk@earthling.net> wrote in
> news:9l7k9oFr2sU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> I'm pretty sure that when I send to an new email address using
>> Outlook rather than the web interface, Gmail saves the address
>> for me in my contacts just as it does when I use the web
>> interface. I'm equally sure that if I were to change my
>> selection, it would stop doing so, no matter the interface I
>> use.
>
> Correct as far as I have been able to determine. I just didn't
> know this was happening. I setup the account years ago.
> Enabled smtp/pop3, bookmarked a url to redo the password for
> security (every few weeks ya see) and didn't look back. That
> was a bad move on my part.
>
>> But once someone has access to one's webmail account, it
>> really doesn't matter. One way or another, once the account is
>> hacked, all the mail one has sent and received is available
>> for the use of the intruder.
>
> Fortunatly, gmail hasn't been storing copies of my incoming
> emails (that I could see), but it was keeping copies of
> outgoing emails. Another feature, useful it could be, but.. not
> to me.
>
>> Note to Dustin: I got one from your email address too.
>
> I am very sorry Rhonda, I have honored your no contact request
> for years. This was out of my control.

No kidding, Dustin.

I've never had an intrusion into Gmail, but after my Hotmail account was
hacked, a fit of paranoia came over me, and I was changing passwords for
days. You would think that someone bright enough to do this sort of thing
would be able to get a real job.