Re: Mailing list usage questions
On 12 Apr 2023 19:20, John Hasler wrote:
zithro writes:
To not have to handle issues with security or availability of an own
mail server.
I use pobox.com's paid service. Email is their business. I run Postfix
locally using the Pobox server as a smarthost and use Fetchmail to
download my mail every five minutes. Best of both worlds, and I have my
own domain so that I can easily relocate to another service with minimal
disruption. I don't want to rely on a promotional giveaway from an
advertising agency for an important service like email.
I totally get your point, after all Google is the biggest advertising
company.
And I admit I hate using it with personal/private emails.
But *only* considering public mailing list, I fail to understand how it
is a problem (I'm also not using the webmail version).
And thanks for sharing how you're using mail services.
Google's engineers are way better than me ; )
Perhaps, but Google is an advertising agency and they are giving away the
service you are using. The revenue per user that they get by extracting
marketable data from their user's emails has to be slim, and that has to
pay those engineers. How is their support? How quickly do they respond
to trouble reports?
And, of course, you have no contract with Google.
True, I'm only using their free tier offer ("free for personal use").
I don't want to act like I promote google, but their support is
reactive, even for "free" users like me.
This summer, I failed to realize there was a change in their product.
You had to "transfer" your account to still use the free tier, before a
date, or else you'd loose the service for good (i was shaking a bit ^^).
A month after the due date, I kindly asked them if they could still
"keep me" and transfer the service to the "new free offer".
A day after, mails were working again.
Ok, I agree that some of their policies are invasive to say the least.
But it's the price to pay for convenience.
In this world, except air, what's *really* free ? ^^
Take Youtube for example.
Everyone is happy that it exists, yet who is paying for it ?
From what I've read, Youtube is (was?) loosing money.
Ads are, unfortunately, a necessary evil those days.
I'm not saying I like this business model though, but, again,
it's convenient.
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