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So, how long does everyone think that gmail will...

1. exist
2. be free or take your email hostage
3. give out free invites

I've been pondering this over the last few hours in an effort to revamp the 
way I handle my email and mailing lists.  I've been an avid user of kmail 
since I can remember.  However I have pretty much every email I've ever 
gotten since circa 1995 (minus the spam).  I've always chosen to give 
everyone who is a regular in my inbox their own mbox each year.  Same with 
mailing lists...  (I.E. SCLUG-2003, SCLUG-2004, SCLUG-2005, etc.)  Needless 
to say Kmail has been freaking out on me when it gets over a gig worth of 
mail built up in /$HOMEDIR/Mail  so I've created /$HOMEDIR/Mail-Archive  then 
anytime I need to go back in time on a subject I end up dragging it back 
to /$HOMEDIR/Mail re-opening Kmail and searching through my archives....  My 
first thought brings me to gmail...  Send all my lists there, filter them 
into "labels" and start running kcheckgmail in my KDE applets to check my 
gmail every hour.  So do I trust the folks at google aren't going to show me 
where free ends and payments start?  Or what day does Microsoft buy out 
Google and then why the hell would I stick with there service.  So I'm 
throwing this out to the list.  Let me know what your thoughts are.  And 
dumping my email into /dev/null isn't an option I'm a digital pack rat who is 
set in his ways.


Mike
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