Email Client

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Hi Guys!
I guess this would be the right place to ask this question...
Can someone suggest or point me to the place where I could find/download
an mail client that would be secure enough and/or easy for my 8 year old
son to use?
He is crazy about his computer and would love to have his own email but
I am affraid that he would be getting hundreds of spam a day that
wouldn't really be for his eyes yet...
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards to all!

Neb
 
Hi Guys!
I guess this would be the right place to ask this question...
Can someone suggest or point me to the place where I could
find/download an mail client that would be secure enough and/or easy
for my 8 year old son to use?
He is crazy about his computer and would love to have his own email
but I am affraid that he would be getting hundreds of spam a day that
wouldn't really be for his eyes yet...
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards to all!

Neb
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Maybe the free version of Popcorn. It would also protect against picking
up a virus.


http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/
 
Neb said:
Hi Guys!
I guess this would be the right place to ask this question...
Can someone suggest or point me to the place where I could find/download
an mail client that would be secure enough and/or easy for my 8 year old
son to use?
He is crazy about his computer and would love to have his own email but
I am affraid that he would be getting hundreds of spam a day that
wouldn't really be for his eyes yet...
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards to all!

Neb
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Best thing to do is filter out the emails by address. Only allow certain
senders into his inbox. Thunderbird is one of the better free email
clients. Foxmail is free also.
 
Michael :
Best thing to do is filter out the emails by address. Only allow certain
senders into his inbox. Thunderbird is one of the better free email
clients. Foxmail is free also.
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or even filter mails out one by one. That is, let him use an address
that _you_ receive and if you decide the content is safe, forward it
to the son's mailbox. The client software is not important in this
scenario. In the meantime, explain him the dangers of internet (virus,
spam, flamewars, ...) and show him examples. That would teach him to
use the medium with thought, and not as just another toy.

Oh, and there are online spam- and virus filters for emails, for
example "spamfence.net". I use it regulary and like it a lot. It
blocks out ~200 Spams a day (with 0 false positives yet, and ~10%
false negatives), and blocked all but one virus mails so far. This
remaining one was a very fresh one not recognized by several scanners
at that time.



Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
Sascha said:
Michael :




or even filter mails out one by one. That is, let him use an address
that _you_ receive and if you decide the content is safe, forward it
to the son's mailbox. The client software is not important in this
scenario. In the meantime, explain him the dangers of internet (virus,
spam, flamewars, ...) and show him examples. That would teach him to
use the medium with thought, and not as just another toy.

Oh, and there are online spam- and virus filters for emails, for
example "spamfence.net". I use it regulary and like it a lot. It
blocks out ~200 Spams a day (with 0 false positives yet, and ~10%
false negatives), and blocked all but one virus mails so far. This
remaining one was a very fresh one not recognized by several scanners
at that time.



Viele Grüße,
Sascha
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Thank you Sascha,
I will try my best.
He is so happy to have email "finaly" he says...
Best regards,
Neb
 
Neb said:
Can someone suggest or point me to the place where I could find/download
an mail client that would be secure enough and/or easy for my 8 year old
son to use?
He is crazy about his computer and would love to have his own email but
I am affraid that he would be getting hundreds of spam a day that
wouldn't really be for his eyes yet...
Please help me.
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If I had an 8-year old child I would let him/her use a computer with
installed filtering for the web, newsgroups and email.

Proxomitron or a similar program for the web.
Good news and mail programs have filter capabilities.

Create a list of foul language words you do not want him to read and use
the list to remove all web pages, news and mail messages which contain
one of those words.

That ought to be enough to protect him from a lot of bad things and bad
people. With such filtering internet becomes less of a problem than
television, where there are a lot of bad things which we have much less
possibilities of protection.
 
Roger said:
Neb wrote:




If I had an 8-year old child I would let him/her use a computer with
installed filtering for the web, newsgroups and email.

Proxomitron or a similar program for the web.
Good news and mail programs have filter capabilities.

Create a list of foul language words you do not want him to read and use
the list to remove all web pages, news and mail messages which contain
one of those words.

That ought to be enough to protect him from a lot of bad things and bad
people. With such filtering internet becomes less of a problem than
television, where there are a lot of bad things which we have much less
possibilities of protection.
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Thanks Roger
 
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