Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible
by sametmax on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:22AM
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It's a free service, it's part of the deal. If you want permanent storage, you pay.
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And you STILL backup in two or more places.
There are other free services without president of doing stuff like that though. It's obviously always a risk with any service, free or not... but I have never lost an email using Gmail for the past 12-13 years, even on accounts I forgot about for 5+ years.
Just because somebody gives money to the poor in the street doesn't make those who don't bad people.
Plus, on the other hand, Gmail locked me out of several of my accounts for dubious security reasons. I lost my mails because of a suspicion behavior, which was me traveling or not giving them away my phone number. Lucky me I always have an IMAP client setup.
Unless you pay, you are the product. Don't blame them.
P.S: not saying this as a MS fanboy, as any peak on my comment history would let you see how much I blame this company for a lot of things. But this is business as usual. Plus, if emails are that important, you should have a backup.