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Re: [O] OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies
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Paul Rudin |
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Re: [O] OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies |
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Sat, 03 Jan 2015 08:02:18 +0000 |
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Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:
> * Paul Rudin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so
>> it's not like you'll lose your emails.
>
> There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because
> of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now*
> for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often.
>
Sure, but that kind of thing could happen with pretty much any third
party service.
>> At worst you'd lose your email address (although if you register a
>> domain name then you can keep your email address and still use
>> gmail for as long as it's there and some other provider later).
>
> You'll lose some more. At least you are going to lose your labels
> AFAIR.
>
Labels map to mailboxes if you access your gmail via imap IIRC, so you
don't really lose that information.
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- [O] OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data), Karl Voit, 2015/01/02
- Re: [O] OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data), Tom Prince, 2015/01/20
- Re: [O] OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization, Karl Voit, 2015/01/20
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