Re: [Nolug] OT: Gmail paid service

From: B. Estrade <estrabd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:56:03 -0500
Message-ID: <20090831005603.GI19585@bc3.lsu.edu>

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-30 15:29, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> >Has anyone used the GMail paid service (Enterprise, I think is their
> >term)? My employer is considering a switch to it. We are unhappy with
> >our current mail server (with our web host) due to spam and outages. We
> >looked at hosted Exchange as we wanted to also gain shared calendaring,
> >but it seems that many companies don't do a very good job at hosted
> >Exchange either.. With GMail's anti-spam service, Outlook sync utility
> >and shared calendaring abilities, it seems like a good choice.
>
> What happens when Google has an outage, or decides to "grep" through
> your emails for interesting tidbits?

Durrrr...isn't that why Google provides free email and free doc-tools
anyway? They want to mine as much as they can about as many people as
they can. If you're paying for services, however, I would imagine you
can pay for them to not do this with your emails (i.e., ad free?).

>
> >Wondering if anyone on the list is using it in a small to medium
> >business setting?

As I mentioned in an email I just sent, LSU uses it for their student
email.

Brett

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