Since last Friday, WikiLeaks has been posting online e-mails and documents relating to Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
The star performers were online: e-mail, instant messaging and bulletin boards.
If the best matches aren't online, e-mail messages are sent.
Yahoo has agreed to buy Oddpost.com, a vendor of online e-mail and news services, for an undisclosed sum.
For $30 a year, Oddpost has offered 50 megabytes of online e-mail memory, along with spam filtering tools and daily news aggregation.
They include online e-mail, calendars, maps, shopping, word processing and spreadsheets, as well as videos on its YouTube service and photographs on Picasa.
The company makes its own suite of online e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet applications, Google Apps, and has aggressively marketed it to businesses.
In a document posted to its Web site, Oddpost told members it would continue to operate existing e-mail accounts, but said the company would focus on helping Yahoo produce a new version of its online e-mail service.
While the financing of the study makes its conclusions somewhat questionable, its results are in line with similar studies about online e-mail systems compared with in-house products.
But if you're Facebook do you want all your documents sitting on one of your biggest competitor's servers?" Every online e-mail and storage service, at minimum, scans for viruses and makes backup copies of user data.
The idea is to provide a compact and simple-to-use operating system that boots up in a few seconds and works securely and easily with web-based applications, such as social networks and online e-mail.
