Re: [OT] Pros and Cons of Gmail [WAS] Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/09/09 13:50, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:23:55 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 01/09/09 01:35, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:31:23 -0800
> > > "Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Personally,  I don't see a reason to use gmail if you
> > > > don't use the web interface.
> > > A decent free email provider, POP / IMAP, more than seven GB of
> > > storage, and one can be pretty sure that they'll be there tomorrow.
> > Because the company's whole reason for being is data mining.
>
> I don't deny that there is a very good reason *not* to use Gmail.  I do
> often feel a bit queasy for using it, and I sometimes contemplate
> switching.  My point was merely a retort to the OP's comment that he
> "[doesn't] see a reason to use gmail if you don't use the web
> interface."  He obviously isn't concerned the privacy issue you
> mention, and he does indeed use Gmail.

I did notice that implicit point.

Which is why if you want privacy *and* address independence, you 
need to spend the extra effort to get a dynamic DNS address and run 
your own IMAPS server, and probably a web server, too, with 
squirrelmail.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers."