More or less, what are Verizon sub-accounts?
mm
:) That is, when one has sub-accounts in Verizon, are they totally
separate, or can someone with one read the email of another one?
IIUC these are often used by families, each person getting his own
userid, or the first part of the email address, and his own password.
I know what I think that means but I don't want to prejudice anyone
who is answering me.
In this case, a friend of mine relied on her boyfriend to set up her
computer and her email. Later, after I told her she could have more
than one address, she went to the sub-account page and found she
already had one. I don't know if something about it reminds her of
her now-ex-boyfriend, of if it's just that no one else had access to
do this.
Would he be able to read her email by having the subaccount?
But he would be able to have another email address, totally
untraceable to him, except that they live in the same city only a few
miles apart. He could send and receive email at public places, and if
he had an internet account, at home.
How angry would you be if you found out your ex girl or boy friend had
done this on your machine?
Froggie the Gremlin
I believe the main account holder is the one who sets up the SUBs. SUBs are
nothing other than additional separate email accounts that are set up by the
main account or administrator. They are truly separate accounts, and as
such, cannot cross account boundaries.
mm
<inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:14:48 -0500, mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In this case, a friend of mine relied on her boyfriend to set up her
>>computer and her email. Later, after I told her she could have more
>>than one address, she went to the sub-account page and found she
>>already had one. I don't know if something about it reminds her of
>>her now-ex-boyfriend, of if it's just that no one else had access to
>>do this.
>>
>>Would he be able to read her email by having the subaccount?
>
>
>Probably not by having the subaccount, but think about it for a
>second. In order to create a subaccount you first have to be able to
>log into the main account. That requires the main account password.
>So if that hasn't been changed since the ex left the scene, then yes,
>he could have access to her email.
There was an intermediate time, before tonight but quite a bit after
his setting things up for her, when he said something about her plans
for the weekend that he shoudln't have known. She hadn't told him and
no one else could have. She figured it out herself and changed her
password then.
And then the next day he goofed up again, saying something about
having trouble with email, even more clear than that but she didn't
remember exactly. I heard about all this a couple days, weeks, or
months later.
But tonight, two years later, she found the subaccount, and I was 90%
sure and she was 60% sure that he couldn't be reading her email with
that, but I couldn't give her 100% assurance.
She will be pleased with what you and Froggie have said. Thank you
both.
Although when at first we thought he *was* reading still, we were
working on plans to flush him out. I was going to send her an email
under an address of mine that the guy doesn't know is mine and tell
her that I really enjoyed talking to her and plan some exciting date
with her. I'm not sure how that would get him to show he'd read the
email, but she thought it would. I was going to work on it with her
some more.
>
>Just to be safe she needs to change her password to something that
>can't be guessed or found in the dictionary ASAP. Then she needs to
>delete the sub-account she isn't using.
>
>
>>How angry would you be if you found out your ex girl or boy friend had
>>done this on your machine?
>
>
>Fairly angry. But you don't want to go this route, esp if you're the
>new boyfriend.
I'm not the new boyfriend. We dated 13 years ago for 2 or 3 months
and now we're just friends. We get along great for usually an hour a
day, but up to 2 to 3 hours per day, mostly on the phone, and after
that, not so great. If we were married, we'd annoy each other
constantly in several ways.
> As long as she's pissed at the ex he's still in the
>picture if only as an enemy. Change the password and forget about it
>and avoid the potential drama.
Other than flushing him out again, which was more like a game than
vengeance or anything, and which isn't possible if he's not reading
the email anymore, she wasn't going to do anything, but they are still
in contact once in a while. I don't mind. It's not my business and I
get along with him fine and he did me a big favor that took 2 hours
when I was sick a year ago. Even when she was mad at him, she told me
to call him, she knew he would be glad to do it. He has some very
admirable characteristics, like generosity with his time and effort.
He's a volunteer for FEMA for example. He went for a week or 10 days
one time to some hurricane davastated area, and other times maybe for
shorter periods. I'm not talking about a desk job. He does phyical
work. He also is a volunteer fireman, I think. She thinks these are
admiable things too. She's the one who told me. She sort of doesn't
want to be angry at him, but reading her email is just going too far.
She has no way of knowing if he read all of it or just occasionally.
I don't think she gets that much email, much less than I do, and I
don't get that much.
So she is trying to decide if she's so mad she'll cut off all contact.
She didn't say this but: It's obnoxious but it's also a compliment
that he's obsessed with her. The obsession isn't a compliment, but
that it's with her, is. I'm sure he's dated other girls he doesn't
give a second thought about. He's a fit, pretty good looking guy,
afaict, with a real job.
Actually, if I'd known how forgiving she is, and I've noticed it other
times too, with other people, I would have tried harder to settle down
with her. I find it a very admirable quality, and too hard to find.
On the surface she seems very stern. But too many things have
changed, and I know for sure how annoying we are to each other after 3
hours, so it makes no difference now.
Just in the last 3 weeks two of my friends, including a single woman,
have given me their passwords while I worked on their computers, but I
have no intention of reading their email. One password I've already
forgotten and hte other will disappear soon. Actually I would find
their email boring.