[117135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issues with Gmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed Sep 2 10:34:22 2009
In-Reply-To: <m2ab1du36n.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:33:37 -0400
From: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> <bleep> happens and services break. the internet is a wonderful
> demonstration of building a reliable network out of reliable components.
>
> but what we have with google mail (and apps) is two scary problems
>
> o way too many users relying on a single point of failure. so it
> makes the nyt when it breaks because of the number of users
> affected, and
>
> o too many foolish people giving their private data to a data miner to
> whom they actually yeild rights to those data and who seems to store
> them for a scary long time.
>
Amazing what we will pay for free service.
-M<
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