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If you do anything remotely important via email, you should own you own domain name, and pay for a hosted email solution. I can suggest tuffmail. They are awesome and affordable.
How is this different from using Google Apps for your domain? You're simply giving your email hosting to tuffmail as opposed to google.
Startup idea: Sync all Google services with local hard drive
Backupify is also an option, but they backup to their own storage which, again, is not owned by you.
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The problem with having your own domain for email is the communication factor. When I tell someone my email is charles.lastname@gmail.com, there's no miscommunication. Worst case I have to spell out my last name, but generally if someone's asking for email they already have my last name. If you buy a domain, nowadays, you have few options with respect to getting an email that sounds legit, mature, and isn't long and/…
firstname@lastname.[com|net|org]. Mine is bertjw@regeer.org for example.
you want to see how bad it turn when you do chin, li, etc? soon we will run out of website names!
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once you have it locally you have all the time in the world to retag it.
Yeah, because manually re-entering data that exists already is just what a geek wants to do with the next few months of their life. Not.
Sure, it would be awful to lose my Google account but I could recover from it.
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The world would be a better place if if companies focused on "people", and not on "money". Of course that's unrealistic. But I don't care. I grew up believing in Star-Trek-style society. You know... "Social problems are gone; people are free to devote themselves to improving themselves; etc". I honestly believed that humanity would someday achieve this. I used to believe most people were inherently good, and that the…
I sympathize with your idealistic sort of thinking but it is unreasonable. Corporations (which is what Google is) are responsible to shareholders. The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder. It has nothing to do with being good to people. The only way that this guy's problem will get solved is if enough people catch wind of his situation that it affects the fairly po…
That's how it was in the 1500s.
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I fail to see how you are addressing the argument made in the previous post. Google is giving you a service for free because they are selling data about you for money. In other words if you aren't paying for the product you are the product. How does that have anything to do with sophistry?
Sophistry : "a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning." Google makes money because they have users , in the same way that a television network makes money because they have viewers. Both are entirely reliant upon their user base, and will desperately trying to optimize and maximize that user base. If the GP's point was "there is a very low profit / user, and a limited im…
Neglecting that is what is unnecessary.
It would reduce what is now a very scary prospect for people who (like me) put too many eggs in G's basket, to a minor inconvenience rarely encountered. And I can't see that it would make life much easier for spammers.
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On all available tlds? Really?
well having me@lastname.ly would require you to explain "that's a .ly not .com" and therefore not solve this particular problem
I recognise that with the 'cloud', comes simplicity... but I'm not sure if I will ever be able to let go of my own data.