[pianotech] Google groups

[Jim Moy]

A perfectly valid objection to the "cloud computing" way of things.

If the pianotech run on Google servers goes away some day, how can you
guarantee its contents were preserved for the future, in the way we are
able with the Mailman list archives on the server we control?

It seems like it would be a good idea to set up a machine subscriber to the
Google Group that automatically stores the emails it receives in an archive
that is under our control...


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote:

> **
> There's something else -- I don't trust the likes of Google or Yahoo at
> all, even though
> I'm part of a big Yahoo group. And Facebook --- why not just let a bunch
> of corporate
> jackals into your private home, unlock everything, let them take whatever
> they want
> and piss on the rest?
>
> Susan, now getting old and cranky
>
> Terry Beckingham wrote:
>
> Well, I thought I had Google groups figured out, but I guess I was wrong.
>
> It appears that the only way I can send to Google groups is to go onto the
> web and log into my Google account and send from there.
>
> I don't like going to the web if I don't have to, because I do not have
> high speed. I use Eudora for my email and everything comes directly into my
> Eudora. I can have Google forward from my Gmail account to my other
> address, but I can't send to Google groups from my Eudora.
>
> Am I missing something here? Is there a way to send from my Eudora to
> Google groups without logging onto my Google account on the web?
>
> I'm frustrated.
>
> Terry Beckingham
>
>
>
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