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Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail

Posted by timothy on from the conceding-loss dept.

1sockchuck writes "LA hosting company DreamHost, which hosts more than 700,000 web sites, is encouraging its customers to use Google's Gmail for their e-mail, rather than the DreamHost mail servers. DreamHost is continuing to support all its existing e-mail offerings, but said in a blog post that email is "just not something people are looking for from us, and it's something the big free email providers like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google can do better." DreamHost addresses a question about Google that has vexed many web hosting companies: is Google a useful partner, or a competitor that intends to make "traditional" web hosting companies obsolete? In this case, partnering with Google offers DreamHost a way to offload many of its trouble tickets, reducing the support overhead. Is Google starting to make web hosts less necessary?"

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  1. Re:Webmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Right, an opening a SSH connection to launch `mutt` or `pine` is really a thing of the past (?). I can access my mail from anywhere too and hey, I even filter the mail with whatever tool I want to ...

  2. Re:Webmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It means that my communications are being scanned by a third party, and that I should self-censor accordingly
    If your mail passes through the USA, this is unavoidable.
    Only because we the citizens of the USA ignorantly and foolishly tolerate giving up our liberties for government proclaimed security "necessities" which deliver only false feelings of security to those who don't know any better. The masses have become ignorant as to the true blessings of liberty paid for time and again by those who came before us.

    Not a day goes by where some American doesn't demand more liberties be taken away by demanding security against some perceived insecurity while thinking that their personal liberty won't be harmed by taking away the liberties of those who give them offense. Americans constantly ask our government to do more when we should be seeking to keep the government under control instead of empowering the government to control its citizens.

    We still love liberty here, that is part of the reason for the do not call list, but the fact that you are required to opt out instead of opt in to be called is a further example of our tolerance of abuse of liberty. Many obviously tolerate abuse from corporations as well, such as setting up email accounts you know will be scanned and spammed on, something I for one would never sign up for. At least Gmail is an opt in situation as you don't have to use their service. After all, as long as you don't mind their proboscis inserted in your rectum, then I guess there is no problem, of course anyone that sends you an email also gets it shoved up theirs as well. Hopefully, if they truely are attempting to follow their "do no evil" motto then none of this is stored but goes straight to /dev/null, though even that doesn't eliminate the evil of their actions, at least imo.