On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:36:02PM -0700, Carl Youngblood wrote: > Gmail says that they have the right to delete your accounts after like > 9 months or something. I know that plenty of missionaries use other > email accounts, so I don't think that it's a set policy only to use > the Church's email system. Some missions may require it, however. >
I was out serving during the Church wide email approval. At first we were told "any web-mail". A number of Elders already had hotmail, etc. Then a place called missonarymail.org came out, and my mission president encouraged us to use them. Then the Church came out with myldsmail. We were told that every Elder and Sister needed an account with myldsmail, and to stop using other services. I doubt that this came directly from my president, rather I think it was likely the area presidency, or higher. (I can probably check on this) Of course this didn't stop Elders from using their old accounts, but it does mean that the 'approved' email was myldsmail. And honestly, it was a pretty good service, execpt the time I got some Elder's inbox dumped into mine (easy to see the problem, I didn't get nearly that much mail). myldsmail uses Novell's netmail, and it doesn't see that they ever remove you from the service. (yep, still there, just checked) 5 MB of storage, which isn't bad (but once again, I didn't get much mail). Of course the best part of the Church's service was there is no spam (no one knows of it) and no ads. I was quite happy to not have to deal with those while I was out. Anyhow, that's my two cents. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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