Valid points. But email comes from the cloud anyway, so it's tough to argue that one. I mean, why delete an important email from the cloud? Then you're relying on your own backup methods to preserve it.
Also, today's cloud _does_ offer multiple locations and backups. Which systems were you having so much trouble with? How long ago? Don't you think they've improved things at all? On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:25 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keeping everything online and expecting it to always be there is foolhardy. > I spent years putting up with remote servers and wasting hours, days, weeks, > when the servers were down, or worse, when the servers crashed and lost > data, or disappeared completely. I had to use applications online, again > wasting precious time and losing data. Of course, I got a lot of free time > that way, listened to a lot of music, walked around, hung out with other > employees who also couldn't do anything without the network. > > The only practical way to deal with email and other critical data, as well > as applications, is having them in multiple locations with frequent backups. > That way, when [not if] one is down, the others will be available. I will > never rely on only one online service, even one as big as GMail. Even the > huge ones disappear overnight without warning. In the thirty years I've used > computers, I have never trusted them to absolutely be there when I need them > the most--local or remote. > > Online-only is dangerous to business. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
