Good Morning "BUDSCAN" and all Ref your comments on my email Budscan In haste I think you must have misread my email: I did not say or imply that GMail/GoggleMail is part of Cloud. I wrote > > > > 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 ... > > A fair reading of the above does not render your interpretation. It does say and mean that 'your data is NOT under YOUR control'. As Uncle Reboot said in the piece I quoted: > > > >If you use an online e-mail service such as > >Google Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, or Yahoo! > >Mail, you're getting freedom and convenience—but > >you don't control your e-mail. > > As for use of email POP or IMAP would you not agree: An unencrypted email is analagous to e Snail Mail Post Card - who reads it depends largely on who bothers to try, and The email equivalent of a Snail Mail Sealed Envelope is an Encrypted Email. Further as Uncle Reboot wrote in that piece quoted: > > > >Most people would go ballistic if the Post > >Office was opening up their mail, reading its contents, and stuffing > > in ads. > >But when the e-mail providers do just that with > >messages, it's somehow fine—because the service is free. > > > >If you don't think this is fine, don't use one of these services. Yours aye Ike Dawson On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 01:27 -0700, BudScan wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ike Dawson" <legam@tiscali.co.uk> > To: <computers@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:54 AM > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Gmail and UK Customers (was: A 'Permanent'Email > Address for FH) > > > > Good Morning All > > > > Googlemail and Google Apps and the coming Cloud Computing > > Sorry, GMail/Googlemail IS NOT part of the cloud, > your mail is stored on their system ONLY until you DL it, > especially if you use POP3 or IMAP rather than web mail. > > If you don't LIKE that, don't use email, > but I DARE you to access mailing lists without it! > > > > > > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message