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Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail
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- From: Jason Costomiris <jcostom@gmail.com>
- To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:51 -0500
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On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:54 AM, jeff wrote:
[minor rant follows - not directed at Jason]
I just don't like gmail. Something about keeping my mail on their
servers irks me. It's like the world has become a humongous target
market (as opposed to MS, where the world is a beta tester).
I struggle with that as well, to a point. The way I think about it --
there is nothing sensitive in my email, at least not in any accessible
format. If there's sensitive data there, it's encrypted already
before it was sent. For me, the big win is the spam filtering. I
don't have to maintain it (which i was doing before), and it's
excellent.
They also offer Google Apps for free, which is essentially Gmail
+Google
Docs+Gtalk+some other stuff, branded to the domain of your choice.
This is another thing I completely fail to get. Why in the universe
would people want online apps? I prefer to have everything where I
can
access it.
I don't use the apps to create content, though from time to time, I've
shared content that way. Mostly when you've got some sort of
spreadsheet that you need a bunch of people to see, don't need edits
from them, and don't want to care about import/export filters, it's
useful. The web pages are useless for me. The Gtalk is fun though -
sort of like running my own private jabber server.
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