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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:10:04PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> > That is pretty clever; I gather it's somewhat similar to how Gmail
> > works?  (Though I don't know: jra at gmail was taken when someone finally
> > gave me an invite...)
> 
> You even wanted one?

No, which is likely why the only LHS I'll accept was gone when I got
there.

> Just seemed like bad idea and I didn't like the interface. Admittedly I 
> didn't look at it for more than a few seconds and that was long ago and 
> didn't bother finding out if there was a pop/imap interface to it so you 
> could keep your mails on your local hd and view in your chosen mua. Mostly 
> because, even if there was such an option, and you use it, then what would 
> be the point of gmail in the first place if you don't use the web interface?
> 
> So, is it actually cool, or useful?

It can be handy to have an off-domain email address to put in whois,
yes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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