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These posts bashing Google are getting tiring. No sensible free email service will hold your emails forever, especially if you're not using your account. I'd i
by gtirloni 6y ago
These posts bashing Google are getting tiring. No sensible free email service will hold your emails forever, especially if you're not using your account.
I'd invite people without knowledge of running a business to take the time and think this through before jumping in the outrage bandwagon.
- aketchum 6y agoWhile I would normally agree with you, Google has advertised unlimited, free storage forever for things like photos and email. They should not have made that promise and I understand why they are breaking the promise now, but if you break a promise it seems reasonable for people to be irate about it.
- cromwellian 6y agoAll you've got to do is log in at least once every two years and use the account so it isn't inactive. If you have data stored in an account you haven't touched for 2 years, how important is it really to you?
- swiley 6y agoThe problem is that everyone treats gmail like it's a component of internet infrastructure. When your personal emails go to your friend's spam folder regardless of how conformant and well behaved your mail server is and they think its your fault for not using gmail, that's a problem. I've had google lock me out of my account due to their bad password reset heuristic (which is a social scaling problem due to the above) which means I'll completely lose my address in a year (currently forwarded to my own domain.) There are similar social network effects with eg. Facebook, iMessage etc. although the abuses and problems are slightly different.
- lkbm 6y agoThere's nothing in this article that's bashing them. It's useful information about a policy change.
- johncena33 6y agoYou probably have missed reading the comments in this very same thread.
- lkbm 6y agoFair point, there are commenters complaining. I was just looked at the article and a couple of the top comments.