12 Sep
2004
12 Sep
'04
3:06 a.m.
I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server - for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server. For those who can't, public mail servers are all "scary". Gmail is no more scary than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other mail systems on the 'Net.
I don't think most people think it's scary at all. Most people don't really care what might happen to their email before they get it, just as long as they get it. It's another variation on "So what if someone hacks my computer, there's nothing important on it."