Comcast, dynamic DNS service

[jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org (John Chambers)]

Matthew Gillen wrote:
| It's beyond me why anyone would use their ISP-provided email for anything but
| interacting with the ISP anyway.  It's as much a vendor-lock-in mechanism as a
| "service" provided to the customer...

In some cases, it's because they want to be  able  to  look  at  your  email.
Remember a few years ago, when man.com was caught picking photos out of their
customers' email and web sites, and using them in advertising?  It really hit
the  fan  when people found out, and they agreed to stop doing it.  But first
they tried justifying it by saying it was legal because they stated in  their
Terms  of  Service  (ToS)  document  that  any files stored on their machines
became msn.com's property.

Fact is that the management, especially  the  marketers,  at  many  companies
consider  anything  they can trick you into "giving" to them is theirs to use
in any way they feel. If they can make a profit selling information from your
files, they feel that it's their right to do so. Some of them even argue that
they have an obligation to their shareholders to do so.  This should be  good
enough ground to avoid any "service" that puts your files on their machines.


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