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Bill said:
I work in a library. People come in every day to use our public
computers because theirs are broken. They are very appreciative.
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Of course they are. But if they had POP mail instead, they wouldn't
need to travel to your library just to get their e-mail. That's my
point. ;)
 
Uncle said:
Of course they are. But if they had POP mail instead, they wouldn't
need to travel to your library just to get their e-mail. That's my
point. ;)
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Oops, I just realized you said their COMPUTER is broken, not MAIL.
 
Uncle said:
How is that any different to using an e-mail client's "Search" function?
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It isn't. In a regular email client usually delete alot to save space and
I've had my computer crash when I was using Windows and had saved "stuff"
in my save box and lost it all.
It's just a convenient way to hold stuff off-site.
Would you turn down a GMail account?
 
dszady said:
In a regular email client usually delete alot to save space
and I've had my computer crash when I was using Windows and had saved
"stuff" in my save box and lost it all.
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Ah, so you don't backup your data. :)
It's just a convenient way to hold stuff off-site.
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That's true, I guess, but backups can be held off-site too.
Would you turn down a GMail account?
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No, and I actually have one (via invite). I used it for a day or so
to try it, and went back to using Outlook. The Gmail account is now
sitting there dormant.
 
Of course they are. But if they had POP mail instead, they wouldn't
need to travel to your library just to get their e-mail. That's my
point. ;)
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You lost me. The original question was what do they do if their ISP
goes down. What does that have to do with having POP mail? If their
ISP is down, they aren't getting anything at all, are they?
 
Bill said:
You lost me. The original question was what do they do if their ISP
goes down. What does that have to do with having POP mail? If their
ISP is down, they aren't getting anything at all, are they?
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The point was about having access to previous mail, not new mail:

POP = Your mail resides on your PC. ISP goes down, you can still access
your downloaded mail.

Gmail = Your mail resides on the 'net. ISP goes down, you can't access
any mail at all.

I prefer POP for this reason, because it means I don't have to depend
on both my ISP and Gmail to read what I've received. It's all stored
locally here, instead of remotely there.
 
Uncle said:
Ah, so you don't backup your data. :)


That's true, I guess, but backups can be held off-site too.


No, and I actually have one (via invite). I used it for a day or so
to try it, and went back to using Outlook. The Gmail account is now
sitting there dormant.
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Thanks for reminding me to back-up.
Hey. You can sell that gmail account on Ebay.
 
dszady said:
You can sell that gmail account on Ebay.
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Actually, that's against their Terms/Conditions now.

One other aspect I didn't mention is speed. Although I'm on ADSL,
it's still faster for me to access my mail via POP than web-based.
 
Uncle said:
Actually, that's against their Terms/Conditions now.

One other aspect I didn't mention is speed. Although I'm on ADSL,
it's still faster for me to access my mail via POP than web-based.
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Oh Man, they had pages of invites on Ebay a couple of weeks ago.
Google is also trying to clamp down on third-party notifiers by putting out
their own.
Faster than POP3, especially today with all the people trying to access the
system.
 
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