04-21-2012, 05:18 AM
The ability to send emails and receive them is a big part of being online and a real time saver if there are a lot of people you wish to keep in contact with. It’s a real money saver too, as a few years back a lot of people didn’t have computers, and contact was either with a phone call or a letter. These days, just about everyone who has a computer has an email account and in a lot of cases several of them.
One of the minor drawbacks of emails is you need a way to send and receive them which can either be through clients like Windows Live Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird, or logging on to web services like Hotmail or Gmail. Whichever way you choose, it does mean somewhere down the line you will have enter your username and password and this becomes a security and privacy worry if the machine you are currently at isn’t yours.
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One of the minor drawbacks of emails is you need a way to send and receive them which can either be through clients like Windows Live Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird, or logging on to web services like Hotmail or Gmail. Whichever way you choose, it does mean somewhere down the line you will have enter your username and password and this becomes a security and privacy worry if the machine you are currently at isn’t yours.
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