It's all just ones and zeroes

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1358855]

I ask largely because I'm in the midst of changing notzen.com over to being gmail backed (which turns out to be very easy), and am having great fun balancing the needs of people who use clients (and gmail implements IMAP in an idiosyncratic manner) and people who use webmail (and are already sucking their email over to Gmail to read it).

I originally set up the domain so that I wouldn't have to change email address _again_ when I moved ISPs (my first three personal email addresses all being ISP-based ones), and I like having one that belongs to me. But more and more peopleI know seem to be switching over to happily using webmail, and being happy with gmail addresses...

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[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I answered "client" and "ISP" because I still use my ISP's included email (and Outlook, because I shelled out for Office so I'm gonna get my money's worth dammit) for my personal and private mail. The vast bulk of email that I receive is to a Yahoo account, but a good 80-90% of that is UCE because it's the account I show in public and thus the most 'bot-snaffable.

-- Steve is old-fashioned enough to prefer local clients and backups over "the cloud"... too many VAX-comas in university made him distrustful of any media he can't grab with his own hands.

[andrewducker]

I find that gmail does a great job with UCE - I hardly get any at all. And being able to access it via IMAP is a life-saver. Wouldn't have made the switch without that.

[andrewducker]

Oh, and I don't trust email stored on my hard drive. Had too many problems with that before - I'd much rather someone else was backing it up for me :->

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I have a half-terrabyte portable drive and back up my stuff to it monthly. (Yeah, OneCare because I'm lazy and a 3-station license is cheaper than the other small business solutions I looked at. Between my computers and my Xbox I figure Billy G has a big chunk of my coin...) I even store it in a closet over the other side of my apartment, near the building core, as a rudimentary "remote storage" solution.

-- Steve's burned out a hard drive before. Parallel storage looks very good as a result.