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Re:Symantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLoc... by jonlucc on Monday November 21, 2016 @09:58AM (#13005815)
$33 a year for an email service that doesn't do spam filtering?
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Re:Symantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLoc... by bretpiatt on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:48PM (#13007312)
The service does spam filtering, that's different than scanning the contents of your email to put up display ads on your mail client (ex. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) or selling your behavioral information and email address to third parties (other "free" mail services).
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Re:Symantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLoc... by Zigurd on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:15PM (#13007021)
Spam filtering used to be a client feature. I'm sure it could work that way again.
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