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I haven't, don't, and never will have a Facebook account. Ditto all the rest. No need for all that to stay in touch with the people in my life. What concerns me is the lack of anon…

Different times. You cannot hold past people to whatever the rights du jour are now. Slavery was legal then, right or wrong. I'm sure in 100+ years, people will look back on us and…

"...the Walmart of coffee." Thank you for the laugh. I never thought of it quite that way, but it's true if one considers it and the alternatives.

Actually, the right kind of bombing does work to great effect. Namely fuel/air bombing. It's also cheaper than conventional bombing. The bomb detonates at an altitude over the targ…

I think coffee is vastly overpriced compared to Europe. I always drink gallons of the stuff whilst in Europe for several reasons, not the least of which is that it's better over th…

I hear you, but do you really think the people who spent the last decade+ working on Perl 6 would have done so because of love of the language alone? That would be a terrible waste…

Hardly. Perl gets far more use than you might imagine and in some very interesting places. Anyone who thinks that Perl is dead or dying is a bandwagon fan of the language(s) du jou…

I don't use FTP, nor do I allow it on my network. SSH or no go.

I miss the mainframe and thin clients. I really do. I miss when IT workers were white collar workers, not the now-expected know everything from cabling to programming crap that has…

I would simply add that whilst Google have their fingers in so many different things, Fastmail does one thing very well: email and email-related.

Well, for Webmail, then, I would say Tutanota or ProtonMail, both of which are good.

Google's rendition of IMAP isn't following any standard but their own. Fastmail uses Cyrus IMAP server, which most certainly follows standards. I've been a Fastmail user for almost…

I understand, but send these guys an email. One of the founders will likely respond to you. I used to run all my own stuff, but when my children came along, I didn't want to spend …

For Webmail or IMAP mail, look no further than Fastmail. These guys know exactly what they are doing with IMAP and they can easily accomodate your multiple accounts. I've been a Fa…