>Except the hassle of the extra steps involved. The speed of a modern >AJAX client (email in your browser) equals that of any local client, >so why bother setting up POP or IMAP? Better to learn the browser >version.
The reason is to get a local copy of the emails on your hard drive so you can stop worrying that Google will suddenly go out of business and take your files with it. Frankly I would be more worried that MS could suddenly go out of business. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
