Ask me why I don't use web mail... And why I'm so angry at RootsWeb/Ancestry for forcing their web mail on those of us registered there, when it used to be so easy to just email each other -- bypassing them entirely. Not to mention the extreme inconvenience of not having all my genealogy email stored in one place: MY computer. A pox on them! Diana > Good Morning All > > Googlemail and Google Apps and the coming Cloud Computing all > mean that > by default, YOUR DATA is no longer under YOUR control. I know the > promises ... but I've been using computers since the 1960's and I have > heard them all before ... > > Here's a piece just issued by a computer journalists / guru "Uncle > ReBoot" ... worth a moment to reflect! > > Yours aye > > Ike Dawson > <snip.

Hi Diana I couldn't agree more There are several sites that attempt to keep you behind closed doors (in order to protect us if you believe such guff) When I reply to any of these (be it Ancestry, Genesreunited or whatever) I include my email address, if they don't want to mail direct its up to them but I do not carry on for long on the infernal systems (sorry Internal :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Ask me why I don't use web mail... > > And why I'm so angry at RootsWeb/Ancestry for forcing their web mail on > those of > us registered there, when it used to be so easy to just email each > other -- > bypassing them entirely. Not to mention the extreme inconvenience of not > having > all my genealogy email stored in one place: MY computer. A pox on them! > > Diana