Agreed - add Compuserve to your list, the classic service is being shutdown on June 30th.
It all comes down to who you want "owning" your data, you or a provider. I have email I don't care about (google/hotmail) and others that I do: corporate&spamcop. After taking the time to do the backup, verify you can restore from it. I've seen lots of corrupt backups over the years. On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:30 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > If you want to make sure you always have a copy (to the best of your > backup abilities, anyway,) then yes, you need to download your mail. > > http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch > > Especially in this and upcoming years, backing things up from online > services is important to do. Among those that are closing or have > closed with no or little notice: > - Geocities (!) > - AOL Hometown > - Tripod > - Yahoo Briefcase > - Filefront.com (1.5M files, 48TB, gone) > - AOL Pictures > - TOTSE > > So yes, backup your stuff. They have no obligation to do it for you > (other than their reputation, which doesn't last.) > > -Mark C. > > P.S. I'm one to talk, of course... I still haven't backed up my GMail > in 4 years... I really should get on that. Thanks for the reminder! > > On 4/26/09, Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dick, > > > > Are you sure you need to download your mail? I use only web mail and some > > of my messages on shaw are several years old. (I must clean house sometime!) > > Even better, my wife and each have gmail accounts which we use most of the > > time and we never download. Right now I have 401MB on their server which is > > 5% of my quota. > > > > Robin > > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Dick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I am running Kubuntu 9.04-64bit (just did an upgrade and all appears good > > so far - it did take several restarts to get all the upgrade downloaded due, > > I'm sure, to overloaded servers). My wife uses a miniMac (older PPC chip). > > We share a mail account at Shaw. I have my KMail set up to leave the mail on > > the server for seven days and her Mac mail is set up to remove mail when > > downloaded. This problem started under Kubuntu 8.10, probably KDE 4.1 is a > > better starting point, and has continued under KDE 4.2.2. My wife's mail is > > fine, it does just what you'd expect. My KMail appears to run normal, but > > about twice or three times a week it re-downloads all the old mail that's > > hanging around the server. Thus I end up with a couple of hundred duplicate > > messages. It's not serious, but it is irritating. Because nothing happens > > like this on the Mac I am assuming it's related to KDE or KMail? Did > > something change in KMail or did Shaw change something or do I have a bad > > set of preferences? Maybe I should take the 7 day delay off the leave mail > > on the server setting? Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
