I think something is being overlooked here. The purpose of free e-mail accounts is mainly for those who can't get their normal account providers to let them check their e-mail from a) 3rd party software or b) over the web. They are also generally used by those who simply don't have an account otherwise. These types of people would seem to me to be those who don't own a computer but want an e-mail address seeing as how virtually every ISP offers e-mail addresses whether it's a free ISP or not.
The point I'm getting at is that most of us aren't using our free mail accounts to send anything that is very personal or important. We have other means of getting that information to the appropriate parties that is more secure. I use my Yahoo account for newsletters and as a spam address when I'm not sure what a site might send me. I don't receive anything important from it and I don't use it for anything important. Encrypting my Yahoo mail isn't going to make me feel any better.
Honestly, what is a person going to gain from going through my Yahoo mails? They're wasting their time. If more people used a common sense approach when dealing with free services such as this one, it wouldn't be an issue.
...but I didn't see a single mention of a collectible card game in that article. I pray it's because parents kept their 8 year-old kids from flooding the place and playing MTG on the floors (and tables AND halls AND in bathrooms) like they were when I went in 1996.
Perhaps the CCG fad has finally officially died.
But then I wouldn't have expected anything else after WoTC began focusing on AD&D after they bought it. Seems to me that the big focus on GenCon was all computers and how paper games are becoming electronic. Does that make them more or less of a geek for playing their games on computers?
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I think something is being overlooked here. The purpose of free e-mail accounts is mainly for those who can't get their normal account providers to let them check their e-mail from a) 3rd party software or b) over the web. They are also generally used by those who simply don't have an account otherwise. These types of people would seem to me to be those who don't own a computer but want an e-mail address seeing as how virtually every ISP offers e-mail addresses whether it's a free ISP or not.
The point I'm getting at is that most of us aren't using our free mail accounts to send anything that is very personal or important. We have other means of getting that information to the appropriate parties that is more secure. I use my Yahoo account for newsletters and as a spam address when I'm not sure what a site might send me. I don't receive anything important from it and I don't use it for anything important. Encrypting my Yahoo mail isn't going to make me feel any better.
Honestly, what is a person going to gain from going through my Yahoo mails? They're wasting their time. If more people used a common sense approach when dealing with free services such as this one, it wouldn't be an issue.
...but I didn't see a single mention of a collectible card game in that article. I pray it's because parents kept their 8 year-old kids from flooding the place and playing MTG on the floors (and tables AND halls AND in bathrooms) like they were when I went in 1996. Perhaps the CCG fad has finally officially died. But then I wouldn't have expected anything else after WoTC began focusing on AD&D after they bought it. Seems to me that the big focus on GenCon was all computers and how paper games are becoming electronic. Does that make them more or less of a geek for playing their games on computers?