-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: [snip] > > > Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and > aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read > mails from any places where an internet connection is available. > > Other merits over local IMAP include that you do not have to keep your > desktop machine on for all day long, which is a saving of the > environment, the probability of data loss on google clusters can be > considered smaller than that of a desktop disk fault, and gmail can also > be accessed using IMAP.
Call me tin-foil boy, but I'd rather not have all my sometimes- sensitive email sitting on the servers of a company who's whole business is based on "grepping" files looking for keywords, and which has a proven track records of sharing said data with decidedly authoritarian governments. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHpyDOS9HxQb37XmcRAoIMAJ0aoDw/XfVgP15PqdLaESCBPEEDFwCgyCsc myk2Xidyb9k61cSPaTL1iLg= =juRj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
