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Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer
how hosed would you be, because i would be completely hosed

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

probably slightly hosed op

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Is webmail anything like webtv?

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Clipperton posted:

how hosed would you be, because i would be completely hosed

Totally and fully boned. Same if the contents were made public. Good thing google is a wholly benevolent company.

Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer

Volume posted:

Is webmail anything like webtv?

if i just said 'gmail' i would offend all the yahoo and hotmail people

PromethiumX
Mar 5, 2003
lol if you keep all your eggs in one basket.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
I would not be hosed up at all since I am leet as gently caress from playing watch-dogs.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

all i would loose is my long rear end random SA password

Ignoarints
Nov 26, 2010
until about 2 years ago I was pretty independent from things like my email accoutn

but wow id be pretty hosed now. I literally use it like a permanent notepad

Cockblocktopus
Apr 18, 2009

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.


Ruby got Railed posted:

all i would loose is my long rear end random SA password



Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Ignoarints posted:

until about 2 years ago I was pretty independent from things like my email accoutn

but wow id be pretty hosed now. I literally use it like a permanent notepad

you should probably download it all using like a client like thunderbird so you have it on backup. i recently did this because sometimes im travelling and need to access stuff since i also use it like notepad for random passwords and notes.

gmail's not going anywhere but better safe than sorry

pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


For passwords do yourself a favor and use keypass. It will store your passwords (in an encrypted database). It will even generate them for you. You already have a single password (your email password) might as well move it to a database that is more secure. You can even email a backup copy of your keypass database to yourself in case you lose it.

You can attach things in keypass and probably use it as a notepad too, but you'd likely be better off with some txt files on a thumbdrive or something designed for it then trying to mess around with it for notepad usage.

Fagmaster
Aug 21, 2004

pretty much nothing

Phil Niekro
Jun 4, 2005

i would be free for the first time in a long time

uG
Apr 23, 2003

by Ralp
well you could just ask the NSA for a copy
:goonsay:

Depressing Drawers
Dec 17, 2004
UR ALREADY DED
I'd be fine actually.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
try having a life outside the computer, op

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
I would still have my thunderbird archives dating back years

pixelbaron
Mar 18, 2009

~ Notice me, Shempai! ~
would lose all the naked pix your gf sent me

Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer

butplug accident posted:

try having a life outside the computer, op

it's my outside-the-computer life that would be hosed! because all my travel booking info and baseball tickets and stuff are in there

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

Clipperton posted:

it's my outside-the-computer life that would be hosed! because all my travel booking info and baseball tickets and stuff are in there

just print the important stuff out and put it in a binder

Cabbages and Kings
Aug 25, 2004


Shall we be trotting home again?
I wipe everything in all my mailboxes at least on an annual basis. Helps me not get too attached to any one thing.

It's fuckin strings of characters. I can always make new ones.

Boinks
Nov 24, 2003



I printed all of my emails out and keep them in a fireproof safe so I'd be fine.

zooted heh
Oct 16, 2005

str8 mercin burgers my nigga
who the gently caress still uses email?

Weaponized Autism
Mar 26, 2006

All aboard the Gravy train!
Hair Elf
the point is to back up everything.

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
I have several email accounts. Most are redundantly stored either on my home computer or the servers at school. The only things I would lose would be my big pile of spam at yahoo and all my SCP Foundation voicemail reports. So nothing mission critical, but only mildly amusing rants by paranoid tinfoil hat wearers.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH

zooted heh posted:

who the gently caress still uses email?

people with jobs

zooted heh
Oct 16, 2005

str8 mercin burgers my nigga
oh no all my emails that send me a link to reset my password on some rando site. :qq:

zooted heh
Oct 16, 2005

str8 mercin burgers my nigga
lol if your some pos pencil pusher who gets emails from your company about wacky tie friday.

Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL
HELP! can someone tell me how to make a local copy of my webmail account?

Moola
Aug 16, 2006
not really hosed at all

oh no all my temp password reset email links are gone!

what?

Subliminal Sauce
Apr 6, 2010

Spreading freedom and spreading it thick; that's just a thing us right-wing nutjobs do!
All accounts and passwords are securely backed up on a redundant server in the form of a spiral notepad I keep in my desk. Buried under doodads and stale gum...very safe I'd say.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

The Feldman Felcher posted:

All accounts and passwords are securely backed up on a redundant server in the form of a spiral notepad I keep in my desk. Buried under doodads and stale cum...very safe I'd say.
gross

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

The Feldman Felcher posted:

All accounts and passwords are securely backed up on a redundant server in the form of a spiral notepad I keep in my desk. Buried under doodads and stale gum...very safe I'd say.

Real post, all my passwords are physically written down in a notepad on my desk too.

someone would have to break into my house, steal my computer, my notepad AND my phone to get my gmail account.

Macasaurus
Oct 12, 2012

f it cant be said or read in 140 characters

good job op

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

DUNSON'D
i would be happy because it would get rid of the 15k new emails i have and make that dumb "15,254" bubble on my phone go away.

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

smh at anyone who doesn't use a dedicated email program on their computer to store mail locally

Stealthgerbil
Dec 16, 2004


I backup all my emails because im a big fat nerd

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy
i have thunderbird purely to back everything up to my hdd just in case

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Funkstar Deluxe
May 7, 2007

「☆☆☆」

LifeSizePotato posted:

smh at anyone who doesn't use a dedicated email program on their computer to store mail locally

2 much effort imo

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