Hacker News Reader

Comment by notch656a | Hacker News Reader

Aight, I paid for an e-mail service and now I had to sign the same agreement as google except I had to pay on top of that. What exactly can I sue them for that I couldn't sue google for? If I run my own server what fraction of clients and customers will actually get my mail rather than it being auto-filtered out as spam?

View on HN

You're not paying Google anything. You know what they owe you? Nothing.

You pay Company X to host your email, and you enter into a service agreement. They kick your account off. If they're in violation of the service agreement, now you actually have a case against them. They know this. Their legal council knows this.

Company X sent me the same service agreement as google, that basically said pay us and we promise absolutely nothing and we don't promise you'll actually get e-mail either. The only difference is I pay on top of that.

Find Company Y then. There's literally thousands of email providers to choose from. Take your pick.

They operate as a corporation in the United States and are subject to its laws. They owe what the law says they do. And the laws can be changed.

Feel free to vote for people who think companies can do as they please just because you aren't directly paying for them (even though they make money off you), I'll vote for other people.

Handing out free goods does not excuse malicius intent, like sabotage.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com