Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-27 Thread mac
Philip Stubbs wrote: > ...If anybody is going to trust their deepest darkest secrets to an > open postcard, then they are a fool. The kind of data-mining that Google does on *everything* that you pass through their servers is not about logging our extra-marital affairs (if any!) or our carelessl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-27 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/11/26 Matt Wheeler : > On Thursday, November 26, 2009, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now > > While I do use gmail, I think it's important to consider carefully how > much you trust them to keep your data secure. Have you read the gmail > privacy policy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mac wrote: > > Mmm... a comfortable abdication only if the innocent never come to harm. > > But, even so, you don't have to hand over your wallet to The Man > *before* he holds you up at knife point, do you? > > mac Of course it is possible to have the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread mac
Rowan Berkeley wrote: > I think you have to assume The Man knows what kind of spud U like, etc. Mmm... a comfortable abdication only if the innocent never come to harm. But, even so, you don't have to hand over your wallet to The Man *before* he holds you up at knife point, do you? mac -- u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 13:45 +, mac wrote: > Philip Stubbs wrote: > > I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now > > Glad you're confident of your anonymity... > De-Anonymizing Social Networks by Narayanan & Shmatikov: > http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021482/DeAnonymizing-Social-Networks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread mac
Philip Stubbs wrote: > I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now Glad you're confident of your anonymity... De-Anonymizing Social Networks by Narayanan & Shmatikov: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021482/DeAnonymizing-Social-Networks-Shmatikov-Narayanan But even if it's easy, why would anyo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Matt Wheeler
On Thursday, November 26, 2009, Philip Stubbs wrote: > I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now While I do use gmail, I think it's important to consider carefully how much you trust them to keep your data secure. Have you read the gmail privacy policy? It basically says "we will not put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/11/26 mac : > Gordon wrote: >> Russell Hay wrote: >>> +1 for hosted gmail >>> >> Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently? > > I noticed a few people are keen on Google mail.  Yes, folk tell me it's > convenient (I don't know about outages);  but Google is in to > data-mining on a va

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread mac
Gordon wrote: > Russell Hay wrote: >> +1 for hosted gmail >> > Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently? I noticed a few people are keen on Google mail. Yes, folk tell me it's convenient (I don't know about outages); but Google is in to data-mining on a vast scale. I suppose if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Toby Satchell
>> Russell Hay wrote: >>> +1 for hosted gmail >>> >> >> Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently? >> > > Define major. > > I have two google apps for domains accounts, and have had a bit of > outage on them, but nothing I'd consider "major". > + 1 for Google Apps. I use it for a number

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/26 Gordon : > Russell Hay wrote: >> +1 for hosted gmail >> > > Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently? > Define major. I have two google apps for domains accounts, and have had a bit of outage on them, but nothing I'd consider "major". In contrast when I ran my own mail serve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Gordon
Russell Hay wrote: > +1 for hosted gmail > Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Russell Hay
+1 for hosted gmail Russ 2009/11/25 Philip Stubbs > 2009/11/25 Colin McCarthy : > > 2009/11/25 mac : > >> Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > >> looking to move my e-mail-only account. Does anyone have any experience > >> / comments about Heart Internet o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/25 mac : > Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host? I have used virualnames.co.uk for a number of years for hosting and email and have been very satisfied. Their technical support has been excellent on the odd occasion that I have needed it (genera

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Philip Stubbs wrote: >> I would recommend getting your email hosted for free by Google. >> http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new >> >> I use for it a few domains and you get all the wonderful Google Mail >> features but with your own domain name. >> >> It's eas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread mac
mac wrote: > ...Does anyone have any experience / comments about Heart Internet or > 5 Quid Host?.. Thanks to everyone for taking the trouble to reply and for the very useful comments. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/11/25 Colin McCarthy : > 2009/11/25 mac : >> Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm >> looking to move my e-mail-only account.  Does anyone have any experience >> / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?  Their free or >> cheap-as-chips packages look OK.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Simon Osborne
2009/11/25 mac : > Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > looking to move my e-mail-only account.  Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?  Their free or > cheap-as-chips packages look OK.  I'm not fussed about the web spa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Colin McCarthy
2009/11/25 mac : > Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > looking to move my e-mail-only account.  Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?  Their free or > cheap-as-chips packages look OK.  I'm not fussed about the web spa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM, mac wrote: > Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > looking to move my e-mail-only account.  Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?  Their free or > cheap-as-chips packages look OK.  I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread Gordon
mac wrote: > Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > looking to move my e-mail-only account. Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host? Their free or > cheap-as-chips packages look OK. I'm not fussed about the web space

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread David Jones
mac wrote: > Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm > looking to move my e-mail-only account. Does anyone have any experience > / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host? Their free or > cheap-as-chips packages look OK. I'm not fussed about the web spac

[ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-25 Thread mac
Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm looking to move my e-mail-only account. Does anyone have any experience / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host? Their free or cheap-as-chips packages look OK. I'm not fussed about the web space aspect, really, mo