No, it most certainly is not. Thanks for helping to clarify. Word definitions change, but generally "the cloud" refers to a bunch of computers connected via network where your data is kept. It also implies that there's no way of finding a specific copy of your data on one hard drive; you really don't know where it is.
Thus, your POP or IMAP email account at your ISP is probably not "in the cloud", as it exists on one hard drive somewhere. The Gmail you access via the web interface probably is in a cloud, but we can only surmise that because we think Google uses cloud storage. But for many things we have to use the words "maybe" and "probably" because we really don't know. Like the classmates.com example. Who the heck knows if they use cloud storage? On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay. However, Classmates.com, being accessible by users only by > way of the internet is, in fact, in and of the "cloud," is it not? I > stand ready to be corrected. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
