David Guest wrote: > 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.
I agree. Don't trust Google with your personal information. > Your encryption is essential, yet, if used on a wide scale, destroys the > service. Google made $200m profit on $1b revenue in the last quarter of 2006. I don't think that they will be sunk by such use of their services. And of course, as Horst points out, they are commodity services - it is cheap and easy to set up an SMTP and POP3 mail server on the Internet. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
