"safety" of gmail (was: Re: [clue-tech] Archives)

[Hex Star]

Oh and also...I'm sure there's more to the gmail teams reply then just
"Sorry, gmail is still in Beta!  See ya!"...that doesn't sound professional
to me at all and I highly doubt any support rep at google would give someone
such a reply

On 4/27/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's true that there have been reports of people having there accounts
> suspended...and knock on wood that hasn't and hopefully never will happen to
> me...but usually such occurances are coupled with the use of (the name of
> this utility just slipped my mind ><') some utility that has hacks such as
> adding a  delete button for gmail (for back when there wasn't one) and such
> and because the utility caused alot of sessions and gmail doesn't like that,
> it would result in the users gmail accounts perminent suspension
>
>
> On 4/27/06, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> >
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, as it turns out, I have a fair number of the mails going
> > > back to 09/05/04. All of these are in my gmail account, so I would
> > > need to figure out how to get them into an mbox file. I know that
> > > gmail has a pop3 retrieval function, but the only active mail account
> > > that I have is my wife's account on comcast. There's no hurry with my
> > > contribution, since the mails are safe on gmail.
> >
> > This will probably start a side-thread, so I'll change the topic but
> > reply to the thread...
> >
> > What makes you think gmail is "safe"?
> >
> > There was some interesting publicity recently about some poor guy that
> > had his account accidentally deleted.  Google's official reply was,
> > "Sorry, gmail is still in Beta!  See ya!"  He had what he described as
> > "very important" e-mails in his gmail account.
> >
> > Many of us do, I'm sure.
> >
> > Seriously -- gmail's a nifty tool, but saying that your important mail
> > or data in someone else's hands is "safe" without a contract stating how
> > they're going to back it up and how fast they will recover it... isn't a
> >
> > good habit to get into.
> >
> > I keep toying with the idea of dropping running my own servers -- and
> > just using my ISP or public resources like Google's.  My servers are a
> > bit of a pain most days... (read: spam filters) but... they're mine.
> >
> > And I know what the backup schedule is... and I know where the backups
> > are... and my ISP doesn't have any legal requirements to keep all my
> > e-mail for a set period of time after I delete it (that's coming...)...
> > and... I dunno.  I guess I like that, for the time being.
> >
> > Plus nowadays it feels so "old-school" to run your own stuff, but I'd
> > also miss my customized IMAP server that I've had set up for years,
> > which most ISP's still don't really do... being able to fire up a copy
> > of Thunderbird or mutt on ANY machine and have all my mail for the last
> > X number of years available to me is... nice.
> >
> > So for the moment, it's probably worth the headache.  Not so sure the
> > blog is worth it much anymore -- the blog comment and trackback spam is
> > completely out of control, but tools installed to deal with it seem to
> > be working -- for now.
> >
> > Nate
> >
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