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> It's really disappointing that nothing better than gmail has come along. That's what I thought, until I discovered Fastmail. I'm now a happy family account h
by duncan_bayne 9y ago
> It's really disappointing that nothing better than gmail has come along.
That's what I thought, until I discovered Fastmail. I'm now a happy family account holder, enjoying great support from human beings, and happy that my children won't be data mined for advertising (at least, not in this particular case).
I'm not kidding about the support either. One of their developers was on Github helping out with an issue on an open source tool that, in the end, proved to be a problem with their implementation of a protocol. Fix was in Fastmail staging a week later, and in prod a few weeks after that.
- bitmapbrother 9y agoCMU uses G Suite so they do have support and their email is not "datamined" >Unlike Google’s consumer offerings, which may show ads, we do not collect, scan or use your G Suite data for advertising purposes and do not display ads in G Suite, Education, or Government core services. We use your data to provide the G Suite services, and for system support, such as spam filtering, virus detection, spell-checking, capacity planning, traffic routing, and the ability to search for emails and files within an individual account.
- duncan_bayne 9y ago> CMU uses G Suite so they do have support and their email is not "datamined" Sure. I was talking about their "consumer" offerings though.
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoI'd think very hard about that "for advertising purposes" hedge before claiming fully that mail is not mined. It's also not clear if "collect" and "scan" attach to that hedge as well, or if they're in totality and "use" is the only one hedged. Oxford commas have become relevant in contract law before, oddly enough. I agree it's unlikely, I'm just saying your quote leaves several possibilities open in unkind interpretations.