Tim Churches wrote: > Horst, what proportion of the population run their own SMTP server (um, > what is not "real" about the Google one, BTW?)? What proportion of GPs? > Or even of subscribers to this list? > > Also, the the highly redundant Gmail servers housed in multiple > redundant data centres with redundant power supplies and redundant > Internet connections and teams of hovering technicians around the clock > to look after them do tend to keep running almost all of the time, > whereas my home-based SMTP server is not quite as reliable, due to > prolonged local power failures, stuff-ups by my ISP, and hardware > failures in my computer. All of which tend to happen when I am > interstate or overseas and most want to use portable encrypted email. > Google is fantastic. Google's motto is "Don't be evil". Yet, I worry.
Your encryption is essential, yet, if used on a wide scale, destroys the service. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
