[Reader-list] Re: how to get pop3 access from gmail

[abhijeet tamhane]

perhaps the second part is, many others use the internet from offices
or workplaces. For them, the Shekhar's strong and well-worded
question, "When did free beer replace free speech?" just doesn't
matter!
-- abhi. 

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:20:21 +0530, Shivam <shivamvij at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shekhar,
> I would love to graduate to POP3 the day I have internet on my
> desktop. i surf from cybercafes - perhaps there lies part of your
> answer.
> Thanks
> Shivam
> 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:39:00 +0530, Shekhar Krishnan
> 
> 
> <shekhar at crit.org.in> wrote:
> > Dear All:
> >
> > This debate about GMail, and the request for information on POP3
> > access, makes me wonder if this is all not a bit OT. But while we're at
> > it...
> >
> > The excitement around GMail baffles me, particularly since any form of
> > web mail, no matter how sexy its feature set, cannot compare to a POP3
> > mailbox used with your favourite mail client (Eudora, Mozilla, OSX
> > Mail, Outlook). The widespread use of webmail is further baffling, when
> > maintaining a POP3 mailbox costs less than Rs 200 a year, and doesn't
> > tie you to a commercial domain, infringe your privacy by storing your
> > mails on someone else's server, bombard you with advertisements, and
> > confine you to the limits of your browser. The most baffling thing is
> > the tenacity of these commercial webmail services and the fierce
> > loyalty of people to yahoo, hotmail, and now gmail. Is this unique to
> > India, where there is widespread difficulty in obtaining domain name
> > registrations (especially .in domains, because of NCST's kleptocracy),
> > and sheer laziness on the part of most institutions and firms (and
> > their IT service providers!) in alloting mailboxes to their employees.
> >
> > I have recently had an incident in a school where I teach and help with
> > IT, in which the faculty is insisting on retaining their yahoo and
> > hotmail addresses because they are more "secure" than using the
> > school's own registered domain, hosted on a dedicated server for which
> > the school has paid an annual contract. This faculty argued with me
> > that anyone in my IT company, which is contracted to host their web
> > site and mail server could see their mails. Why is the same fear and
> > anxiety absent with large anonymous corporate entities like Microsoft,
> > Yahoo and Google? When I argued with this person that using their own
> > domain (whether through POP3 or web access) is much more secure, I was
> > given a lecture on the wonderful features of GMail and how I too could
> > get invited to join. I wanted to vomit on this person. When did trust
> > in distant corporations replace a relationship with your local service
> > providers? When did free beer replace free speech? Nearly every list to
> > which I am subscribed has seen people hankering after GMail invitations
> > (even free software activists), without any serious discussion of this
> > phenomenon.
> >
> > Why can't we start cooperative mailbox movements, or hosting societies,
> > which will get unique domains registered for people and give them out
> > for free or at a nominal fee, considering the neglible costs of hosting
> > mailboxes? Or for a start, why can't most IT service providers give
> > people mailboxes when they register domains for them, rather than just
> > giving them websites? Anything is better than the gospel of GMail...
> >
> > S.K.
> > _____
> >
> > Shekhar Krishnan
> > 9, Supriya, 2nd Floor
> > Plot 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4
> > Dadar, Mumbai 400014
> > India
> >
> > http://crit.org.in/members/shekhar
> >
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