On 11/5/19 12:40 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On 11/5/2019 11:05 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 05/11/2019 18.16, Mark Lloyd wrote:

[snip]

and email is all webmail these days


That's incredible to me, but yes, it's largely true. It's hard for me
understand why anyone would prefer webmail to even the poorest e-mail
client.

I once set up an internet connection for a friend, and the ISP only gave
instructions for webmail. This was apparently because the ISP inserted
their spam in every message sent that way.

This person would have been an involuntary spammer for years if I hadn't
tried some server names and found their ISP supported POP3 as well as
webmail (they just hid that fact).

It's not about PREFERRING webmail, but about being unwilling to try
anything else.

[snip]

I know people that went from a client such a outlook or thunderbird to
gmail on web and do not want back. Nothing to configure. They only use
firefox for everything, just one icon to know.


Yes, I know such people too. They are of the type who prefer webmail.

In the case I mentioned, that IPS's webmail was making the user send
spam for the ISP along with every message. That was unacceptable.

They DON'T all do that.

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