I don't recall saying AJAX was an email protocol; I'll leave my quote in so you can read it again.
But I think you're wrong about classic IMAP. Those emails are in YOUR account at your host, but "the cloud" is bigger than that. When we store files on a host, we accept the responsibility of backing up those files ourselves. Cloud Computing is not a new concept, but it's a new paradigm that will take some getting used to. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:26 PM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: >> I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP >> are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that >> can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the >> cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a >> historical perspective; I still have a few years of email stored from >> Thunderbird and Eudora before that. > > AJAX is a tool to create an online interface for POP and IMAP. It isn't an > email protocol. Underneath you still have POP or IMAP. Any IMAP client can > store email in the "cloud" and download copies to keep locally. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
