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Email used to be fun, then spammers came, then good email providers added spam filters and made email fun again, now email providers are sending us spam. The circle is almost complete.
I, on the other hand, am happy. It is the same thing as the NSA working as my email backup provider. Changes like these give growth to new/alternative businesses.
Backups are only useful if you are able to restore from them.
But maybe it will become mandatory in due time?
Email used to be fun, then spammers came, then good email providers added spam filters and made email fun again, now email providers are sending us spam. The circle is almost complete.
I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that. At least then I could make an informed decision.
Being a technology company who are seen as leaders in personalised adverts you think they would over come this terrible user experience
Email used to be fun, then spammers came, then good email providers added spam filters and made email fun again, now email providers are sending us spam. The circle is almost complete.
So this is why they wanted to "help us" sort out our inbox? I feel defrauded into believing their motivation. Like suddenly realizing I was given a lift solely because my presence in the car allowed the driver to enter my estate or place of work. This is wrong.
> they wanted to "help us" sort out our inbox? As long as it stays in "promotions" tab, I could care less, as this is where they belong. If that's the case that's actually a smart move to introduce in-maillist ads without polluting the "real" inbox. As soon as they flow out of that bucket, we're entering Twitter's dickbar levels of dorkiness.
It's not like they're spamming our other inboxes. It's just the promotions inbox.
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I, on the other hand, am happy. It is the same thing as the NSA working as my email backup provider. Changes like these give growth to new/alternative businesses.
> NSA working as my email backup provider Backups are only useful if you are able to restore from them.
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Likewise, I've been thinking about moving away from Google Apps for a while and this may be the push that I needed. Anybody have any suggestions? Self-hosted or otherwise.
http://www.roundcube.net/ is generally agreed to be the best webmail system. It's OSS.
I'm resistant to adopting this kind of technology: I'm no security guru, but the idea of having Apache/PHP invoking Postfix directly as an executable (i.e., not via SMTP/ whatever) makes me feel nervous.
For balance: linux and open source in general.