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Old 06-17-2010, 10:38 AM  
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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn View Post
I am laughing at all the suggestions to switch to Gmail. How do you guys know that in six, eight or ten years that Google won't be deciding that the whole email thing is a money drain and waste of time and that they will be closing accounts too. Or maybe the whole company unexpectedly tanks. Seems unlikely, but anything can happen in these times of frentic changes in the technology business. Use your own domain emails and keep LOCAL copies of all your information, not just in "the cloud" on some other company's server somewhere.
Agreed. But if you insist on using Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Use one of the various solutions for keeping local copies of your messages and contacts. For example Gmail allows the use of pop3 which can be used for this purpose.
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