-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Davoust wrote: > You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail > as your personal e-mail?
For me it is a couple of things - one is that I prefer to have email addresses that I can keep that are not client-dependent. Sure, right now gmail allows POP3 access, but that could change some day. Plus, some day if gmail's spam filters become lousy I don't need to redistribute new email addresses to everybody I know. As far as their saving messages go - I've got an IMAP store with just about every email I've ever sent (well, at least since I started understanding what I was doing and had PPP/SLIP access to the net). Gmail might offer the same right now, but down the road if they have a glitch and lose your email you won't have much recourse (you get what you pay for). I just keep all my mail in an IMAP store, and I can try any mail client I want anytime I want. I can use thunderbird over vnc over ssh remotely, or if that lags too much I can just use squirrelmail or something like that. I could even open up my IMAP server to the world and use gmail to read my IMAP mail I suppose (I assume gmail handles IMAP on other servers). After all the sylpheed-claws talk a few days ago I emerged it, tried it out, and now I'm back on thunderbird after tweaking it. The nice thing about open standards is that you aren't married to anything - even if it is something good at the moment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFKSYwG4/rWKZmVWkRAqc6AKCjqURRoBA6J1nTvC06rGI/ELyiUACfadBL lIsB0WpcSMbG8Vl0nXrk/lI= =CO+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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