On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:28:19 +0200, karin <fritz@rodent.frell.eu.org>
prounounced a fatwah thus:

>Yahoo or Hotmail or?
>
>I'm concerned about privacy as most on this list are. I have a number of
>email accounts used for different purposes and with different clients
>(Eudora, Agent (the paid one which is one of the best clients ever imo)
>however I'd like a more private account without having to go through the
>frequent adjustments to nym.alias.net that sometimes works, sometimes does
>not).
>
>I realize that signing up for either Yahoo or Hotmail is an open invitation
>to spam, and spyware (I also use Kerio with sponge's "ultimate" file,
>Proximitron, and Nod32 on a win2k box, sp2).
>
>Is Cotse a viable alternative? I am not a wealthy person (in fact quite
>poor with my dialup) and used to bestow many blessings on Freedom.net when
>it allowed completely anon email accounts but would like to know if cotse
>is a good alternative to using aliases and non traceable IP's (much like
>Freedom was). I might be able to swing the $6 a month (as I said, I'm a
>pretty poor senior but like my privacy and rebel against people putting
>garbage on my machine against my will).
>
>I remember bulletin boards and when none of this cr*p existed.
>
>So any comments on cotse?

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