Re: [Nolug] Why I don't reply on...

But since the whole "purpose" of webmail is that you can check your
email from wherever you are, doesn't offline gmail defeat that purpose?

On 2009-05-15 16:32, -ray wrote:
>
> Gmail is probably "up" more than your locally hosted apps, it's just
> that the whole world doesn't get notified when your local apps go down.
>
> Either way, you can use Gmail offline. It even works on Linux (yes i've
> tested it).
>
> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html
>
> ray
>
>
> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> ... Google for anything but search:
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-302332.html?tag=nl.e539
>> About one in seven Google users around the world lost the
>> use of some or all of the company's services on Thursday
>> as a result of a major network outage.
>>
>> When (not if, but when) the network goes down, you can still read and
>> compose locally-stored email, and still use locally-hosted apps.
>>
>>
>

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