[Info-vax] [OT] Google - Was:Re: [Attn: HP Employees] PDP-11 OS hobbyist licensing

[Paul Sture]

In article <ec89f78d-6cd5-464b-9411-ec2d724abbf3 at googlegroups.com>,
 AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I hate Google for  things like this. Also, they recently hid some 
> website "reset your password" mail I was looking for in the 
> "Important" folder, and didn't mark that folder as having any new 
> mail in it. I found myself locked out of a website that continued to 
> charge me monthly and there was no way to contact them! The site was 
> vimeo. You're instructed to use their forum to contact them or even 
> just to use their help pages, but you have to log in first! Augh!!!).

Hmm, Google making it difficult to see emails from a competitor?

I wouldn't put it past them...
 
> On top of that all that TD Bank would do is change my credit card 
> number! Finally I stumbled upon the mail in this stupid Important 
> folder.  And I don't recall ever being informed of this! This caused 
> me trouble with the website and the credit card company! Augh. Oh, I 
> thought it might have been a different mail account I signed up with. 
> That's one thing vimeo was good at: it let me enter several addresses 
> in one fell swoop.
> 

> I was never found of gmail to begin with. I just use it when I worry about 
> being spammed.

I sacked gmail when they merged their various offerings under the same 
terms and conditions.  Unfortunately I didn't get much of a choice with 
the Android phone I have; it insisted I created a gmail address at some 
point along the way (to get updates from Samsung IIRC).

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.