Mike Leone via plug on 6 Jan 2026 08:57:40 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching


On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM Frank via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> This relates to the original post, in that I can't imagine any Linux
> users would be using Gmail, since one of the reasons for using Linux is
> to avoid data mining that comes with other operating systems, and Gmail
> is owned by Alphabet, which is arguably the largest data mining company
> on the planet right now.

I use Linux (admittedly, far less than I did in years past, these days
I use it mostly at work, and even then, only occasionally). And I use
GMail (and my domain name is even serviced by Google).
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