On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I for one use GMail for my email needs, and I'm as far from an e-mail noob
> as you can get (started with Delphi on-line service in the late 1980s, then
> moved to FidoNet style echomail boards, then moved to CompuServe, then to
> pop-3 email, then to IMAP, and now I use web based GMail almost exclusively.

> GMail serves me (and I guess most other people) because:

> 1. It allows to access my account from anywhere (any machine on my LAN).
> 2. I don't have to deal with local email backups (yes, I'm putting a lot of
> faith in the cloud, albeit making a local backup is on my to-do list)
> 3. I don't have to delete e-mail (I'm a data hoarder, I have every e-mail
> received/sent from 2004 to this date, and it serves me well for research
> purposes, often more than not, the answer is already in my GMail account)
> 4. I pay Google for additional storage

And with one account, you have entire Google from Youtube to Plus
etc..etc...Google s the greatest search engine! This is fair enough to
use Gmail even when one or two downsides exist.
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