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What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email
by peterjlee 9y ago
What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email server and hope you never have to run for president?
- macintux 9y agoPay someone for the critical services you rely on. I'd never trust Google with my main email service; Fastmail.fm has been great to me. For calendaring, I rely on Apple; even if they were to somehow vanish, I'd still have 3 copies of my calendar lying around.
- smichel17 9y agoBuy your own domain name and forward your mail from an address on that domain to your gmail. Keep a backup of your email. If you lose access, just create a new account and update the address you're forwarding to. This is an absolute minimum of money (under $20/year), effort, and disruption to your current habits. Plus, you get to use whatever vanity email address you want.
- CaptSpify 9y ago> run your own private email server Why not? It works for a lot of people. I don't understand why some people are so eager to hand their personal data out to 3rd parties. This is a very do-able solution.