[sdw2003] L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and the cloud

[Matt Dolan]

Tracy,

It was more of a decision to reduce noise from everyone on the list  
complaining about html, source code and resumes and threads that went  
on for weeks with a couple thousand lines ;-)

Matt

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Matt Dolan
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Quoting Tracy Reed <treed at ultraviolet.org>:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Thaddeus Braun spake thusly:
>> Any thoughts on this? Anyone already "clouding" their email offsite for
>> a whole company of 50+ people?
>
> Many universities have already done this successfuly (so far):
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+university+email
>
> They say it is cheaper than running a campus email system. I'm not
> sure how I would feel about it for my company. But I'm all in favor of
> anything that unseats that mess that is Exchange. If I get one more
> "so-and-so would like to recall the email they just sent" message I'm
> gonna go nuts. :)
>
> PS: This list is the only one of the 118 mailing lists which I
> subscribe to (but obviously don't read on a daily basis) which
> flat-out rejects attachments of any sort including GPG
> signatures. Pretty much every email you have ever seen me post here
> had to be sent twice: once with the GPG signature attachment which got
> rejected because I always forget to tell my MUA not to sign and then
> once again without the GPG signature. I like to think this implies
> something about the email security mindsets of the different
> communities in which I participate. :)
>
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