10-27-16 19:39 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Free programs
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 26 Oct 16 14:52, you wrote to me:

 EV> Would You know about any changes to United Online to cause their Free
 EV> Email Accounts to get dropped?

 ml> sorry, i do not... i know they combined into one entity and changed
 ml> their terms so that their software used your CPU's idle time which they
 ml> then sold as a massive computer... distributed processing type stuff
 ml> like distributed.net and BIONC but this was required if you wanted to
 ml> use their services... it is/was one way for them to make money for you
 ml> using their free services... aside from that, i wasn't able to find out
 ml> anything to the questions

When I was using their web site to check for any Emails I saw their
Advertisement asking for Help with that project but I never participated.

This pc isn't on 24/7 where it could be used by them when I wasn't doing
anything with the pc.

 ml>   what happened to my juno email account?
 ml>   what happened to my netzero email account?

 ml> there's a wikipedia page on them but it doesn't say very much... i

I looked at that page a few weeks ago but didn't see anything about changes
to their 'service'.

 ml> suspect that if the account wasn't accessed for some period of time or
 ml> the new terms of service we not agreed to at some point, they just
 ml> dropped them as inactive accounts... their customer support would be
 ml> better able to help if you are serious about finding out what
 ml> happened... TBH, personally speaking, i wouldn't worry about them...

Yes, I only checked it occasionally to see if anyone sent something to me.

Thanks!.


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