Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:29:51 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> In linux.debian.user, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I don't use Gmail's webmail but Mutt and Pan (newsreader). >>> >>> >> Me too, except it's mutt and slrn. The mail for my domains is hosted by >> gmail for four years now, never had any trouble beyond an outage that >> lasted about four hours once. > > Yes, and that's precisely what makes me doubt for migrating to another > provider: Gmail's reliability is very good. > > I first used my ISP e-mail facility (@telefonica.net) but it had (has?) > two big problems: > > 1/ Their e-mail service is very poor (timed based pop3 logins, smtp > service slow and more than often their e-mail servers are down/ > unaccessible, in brief, a very unreliable service). > > 2/ The e-mail service is binded to their phone line services which means > that if you stop using their DSL or land line service you also lose the e- > mail address. Too bad. > > But Google services are starting to worrying me because they want to > control almost any aspect of what you do and how it has to be done. > Although I know how to prevent being tracked I don't like that policy so > much, it's a matter of principles :-) >
No doubt there is plenty of cause for concern regarding Google's services, but for me it's still the easiest and most reliable solution. I do wish there were other, less intrusive options, but living in a remote area and having dialup as the only way to connect (we don't even get a cell signal out here) does restrict one just a bit. Ah well, it's the price we pay for serenity. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402160450.GA5837@radhesyama
