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Given that emails could contain adult material, and that you need to register yourself to view adult materials in the UK, what is one to do if they want to delete emails in their web-based email service of choice but hasn't registered?

"Oi oi, stop right there, in the name of His Majesty the King. 'ave you a deleting loicence?"



Email has a specific carve out on the online safety act


So you just get adult materials in your inbox like grandad did, except this time, the inbox is digital and easier to hide from the missus.


HTTPS-over-SMTP soon?


Richard Stallman is pretty much already doing this!

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me

https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html#internetuse


Browsing the web Stallman style.




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