[74020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Sun Sep 12 03:56:56 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:06:44 -0500
From: "Nicholas Suan" <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
To: "Patrick W Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <07D2BD36-0485-11D9-9846-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server
> - for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server. For those
> who can't, public mail servers are all "scary". Gmail is no more scary
> than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other
> mail systems on the 'Net.
>
I don't think most people think it's scary at all. Most people don't
really care what might happen to their email before they get it, just as
long as they get it. It's another variation on "So what if someone hacks
my computer, there's nothing important on it."
