On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:16:56PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > > > I'm not too worried about Google going anywhere in the near future, > > > but if something were to happen it would be easy enough to POP3 all my > > > messages for backup (which may not be a bad idea anyway now that you > > > made me think of it ;-) ). > > > > Unless this service is shut down without prior notice. And even if it is > > not shut down you never know who accesses your data. > > I'll have to disagree with this one. Google will not shut down Gmail > without prior notice, there are just too many people using it. That's > like saying Windows is going to shut down support for XP without > notice. It's just not going to happen.
Every now and then there are plans on the table to shutdown GPS in times of crisis, I don't see why such action would not be imaginable for Windows or Gmail. And from what I can tell after watching the latest witch hunts at least 2/3 of the population would find that completely acceptable if the right spin doctors are deployed... But we are way off-topic now... Andre'
