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MSN Explorer uses a new e-mail
program
Uninstalling MSN Explorer and reinstalling a prior version of MSN Internet Access will not switch your e-mail account back to your previous program. Click here for information about configuring Outlook Express to access your new e-mail account and switching your e-mail account back to a POP-based system if you need to uninstall MSN Explorer. One big benefit of the MSN Explorer
e-mail system is that it allows you to access your e-mail from any
computer around the world with an Internet connection! You must be
connected to the Internet to get your e-mail.
Some email users will not mind the intrusion, some will. However, there is a probability that someone in your address book will object to the intrusive direction Microsoft has chosen. Most of the general public will not understand what Microsoft has done. This direction may be similar to a direction of AOL. I encourage every reader to write to MSN and discourage that company from its chosen direction. I will explain what MSN has done. MSN has chosen to make your address book reside not on your computer but on their computer. This makes the address book "public information". Regardless of what MSN might try to dupe you with in speaking of firewalls, secured servers, etc. the address book has become public. Any legal counsel will inform you that s/he (with a limited privileged communication between your CPA and yourself) alone possesses privileged communication. Once you tell any other party (a bookkeeper, a friend, a supplier or your internet services supplier) that tidbit of information becomes open to public scrutiny and is discoverable information in any court. Furthermore, selected information may be sold to other entities or used within the MSN organization. Legal Counsel should not use MSN (and AOL might be doing the same thing) in light of the new direction it has chosen. Perhaps you do not mind making those email addresses open to the public. Perhaps your client might. Furthermore, you do not want any "prying" into your lists of contacts - whether that list might disclose cases you are the legal counsel for, potential witnesses, potential investigators, or any one you may want to depose. My advice to all my contacts is to drop the MSN service and use one which will not require you to place your address book on the web servers. Although some will perceive this as intrusive and some will not - the direction is not necessary for you to conduct your communication by email, nor is it the direction the consumer should allow.
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