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You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail |
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as your personal e-mail? I've heard people saying it's evil, and that |
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google is fascist, but I don't really know what to believe. Personally I |
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like the features that gmail offers, and I think it's great that it |
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stores all my mail ever sent so I can access my old e-mails still if my |
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hard drive gets wiped (which happens accidentally or not every month or |
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so). Thoughts? |
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-Peter |
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On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:51 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Jason Booth <jbooth@××××××××××××××××.net> posted |
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> 200610080229.46491.jbooth@××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Sun, |
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> 08 Oct 2006 02:29:46 -0600: |
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> |
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> > thank you, bot or not... |
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> > And I must apologize in advance: I run my mailserver off of a sometimes |
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> > shaky satellite connection. I won't change this, until I have a colo, as |
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> > my users, especially myself, will not be subjected to mail stored on a |
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> > non-encrypted partition with strangers having access. That being said, |
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> > sometimes I answer things that were answered an hour ago and look like a |
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> > total fool. I'm a total fool for sure, but this is due to mailserver |
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> > issues. Please have a little patience for this.... thanks, |
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> |
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> Not a problem. One of the neat things about mailing lists (and |
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> newsgroups) is that often there will be multiple answers. That's fine, as |
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> everybody emphasizes different things and has different styles. My |
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> answers tend to be long and explain the background, teaching the ideas |
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> behind the solution so one can fix similar problems on their own if they |
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> see them again. Others answer only the immediate question, in two |
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> sentences. The great thing is that the person asking (and anybody else |
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> reading who hadn't asked but didn't yet know) gets to choose the reply |
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> that works best for them. |
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> |
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> As for OT "crap". Same thing there. As Simon Stelling said earlier, if |
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> it's of no concern to you or bothers you, simply killfile that topic. If a |
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> particular poster consistently irritates you, simply killfile his posts. |
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> |
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> Also, since you mentioned an inconsistent mail feed, perhaps this will be |
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> of use to you. I and a number of others participate in this group not |
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> using mail, but as a newsgroup, using the services of gmane.org's |
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> list2news gateway. That's a better interface for me. gmane also has a |
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> web interface, presenting the list as a web forum, if that suits you |
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> better than either the standard mail interface or gmane's news interface. |
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> Others use gmail for their public lists, figuring it's a widely circulated |
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> public list anyway, so whatever gmail may profile from the list posts is |
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> fine with them. Given your statements about mail, that may not sit well |
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> with you, just as using gmail for personal mail doesn't sit well AT ALL |
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> with me. However, I'd be open to using it for a list such as this, except |
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> that I don't particularly like either web forums or webmail. Anyway, just |
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> letting you know a few of the other options out there. Which option you |
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> choose is up to you. =8^) |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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