You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail as your personal e-mail? I've heard people saying it's evil, and that google is fascist, but I don't really know what to believe. Personally I like the features that gmail offers, and I think it's great that it stores all my mail ever sent so I can access my old e-mails still if my hard drive gets wiped (which happens accidentally or not every month or so). Thoughts?
-Peter On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:51 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jason Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, > 08 Oct 2006 02:29:46 -0600: > > > thank you, bot or not... > > And I must apologize in advance: I run my mailserver off of a sometimes > > shaky satellite connection. I won't change this, until I have a colo, as > > my users, especially myself, will not be subjected to mail stored on a > > non-encrypted partition with strangers having access. That being said, > > sometimes I answer things that were answered an hour ago and look like a > > total fool. I'm a total fool for sure, but this is due to mailserver > > issues. Please have a little patience for this.... thanks, > > Not a problem. One of the neat things about mailing lists (and > newsgroups) is that often there will be multiple answers. That's fine, as > everybody emphasizes different things and has different styles. My > answers tend to be long and explain the background, teaching the ideas > behind the solution so one can fix similar problems on their own if they > see them again. Others answer only the immediate question, in two > sentences. The great thing is that the person asking (and anybody else > reading who hadn't asked but didn't yet know) gets to choose the reply > that works best for them. > > As for OT "crap". Same thing there. As Simon Stelling said earlier, if > it's of no concern to you or bothers you, simply killfile that topic. If a > particular poster consistently irritates you, simply killfile his posts. > > Also, since you mentioned an inconsistent mail feed, perhaps this will be > of use to you. I and a number of others participate in this group not > using mail, but as a newsgroup, using the services of gmane.org's > list2news gateway. That's a better interface for me. gmane also has a > web interface, presenting the list as a web forum, if that suits you > better than either the standard mail interface or gmane's news interface. > Others use gmail for their public lists, figuring it's a widely circulated > public list anyway, so whatever gmail may profile from the list posts is > fine with them. Given your statements about mail, that may not sit well > with you, just as using gmail for personal mail doesn't sit well AT ALL > with me. However, I'd be open to using it for a list such as this, except > that I don't particularly like either web forums or webmail. Anyway, just > letting you know a few of the other options out there. Which option you > choose is up to you. =8^) > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
