Just curious, Do you manually go in and save you emails as text to the specific location or is there a more automated way to do it ? That's a very good idea.
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mail from Yahoo > Norm Higgs wrote: > >> I never understood the whole Gmail fad myself, either. I can't stand >> web-based Email - period! So what if they offer a gibabyte of storage - >> I can have as much storage as I want using my own computer! >> > > Yeah, what is 1 gig nowadays, given the size of modern hard drives? > > Besides, 1) I don't archive that much mail anyhow. The small amount of > email that I really want to save permanently, I save as text files in a > separate directory tree, that gets mirrored to my fileserver, and backed > up to DVD storage, and 2) I suspect that my email is better protected > from prying eyes on my LAN, than on Google's servers, or any other > off-LAN location. > > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > . http://robertwittig.net/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
