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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by lmm on Sunday October 07, 2012 @04:08AM (#4622876)
The days when every company maintained its own mail server are gone (and on the whole we're better off).
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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by pyre on Monday October 08, 2012 @03:52PM (#4628486)
As we converge on a handful of major email providers, are we really much better off? Would you be singing the same song of Hotmail a decade ago, or is it just because Google seems to be the Monopoly with a Heart of Gold?
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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by lmm on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @08:31AM (#4631115)
If hotmail gave better service than your typical bigcorp's email servers (which is subjective) I'd be saying the same thing. I'm not too worried about a monopoly on email hosting, just because there's very little lock-in; it's trivial to set up as a new email hosting company, and almost as trivial for companies to migrate.
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