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

[Captain Typo]

Dear Shekhar,


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:07:58 +0530, Shekhar Krishnan
<shekhar at crit.org.in> wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I think my message, being a bit of a rant, was misleading. I am not
> objecting to the many virtues of webmail vs POP3 for different people
> who are mobile, checking from cafes, and so on. What annoys the hell
> out of me is commercialised, free mail services like GMail, Yahoo,
> Hotmail, and Rediffmail, and the way in which many otherwise
> straight-talking people suddenly have become brand ambassadors for
> these companies, or normally sane colleagues have begun arguing with me
> about how mailboxes on their own institutional domains are somehow less
> secure than mailboxes hosted from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.

It is inevitable, that people starting using and talking about certain
service providers who provide better service than the institutional
domains.  As far as branding goes, it is bound to happen. In fact your
mail is branded with so many symbols, but you do'nt even notice. To
enlist a few:

Sarai
Srishti School of Art Design & Technology
Bangalore
Apple Mail (2.619)
FLOSS

These words symbolize/brand you in certain frame. It is unlikely, just
like you said about FLOSS/proprietory, that branding would perish in
near future.

> Use
> webmail, POP3, IMAP, that's your freedom of choice -- the relative
> convenience and security of any of these depends on your computing
> environment. Nor am I objecting to the open or closed, free or
> proprietary nature of the browser or mail client anyone uses to check
> mail. Both the browser and client I use, as well as the operating
> system I prefer, are semi-free, mostly proprietary products, and it
> will be years before I fully switch to a FLOSS desktop and application
> suite, if ever. I suspect that this is the same for many of us who keep
> company with the movement, and make money from providing free and open
> source solutions. I don't like being ideological about FLOSS. My point
> was a rather narrow one about commercial webmail being turned into a
> lifestyle emblem, though my point about free beer replacing free speech
> points to a broader set of issues. What is at stake in the GMail
> Ideology is the way in which we put trust in distant corporations
> rather than local service providers, in free beer rather than free
> speech. Is it because we often have to pay money and give time to
> support the latter?

Question is important one, distant corporation verses local provider
who has machines hosted in US.
tough one to answer
still pondering...
>
> But like I said in my initial message, perhaps this is all a bit OT...
>
> Best
>
> S.K.
> _____
>
> Shekhar Krishnan
> Srishti School of Art Design & Technology
> Dodballapur Road
> Yelahanka, Bangalore 560064
> India
>
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>
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regards

Captain