i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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with the fuss over free-mail meltdown (like .mac, hotmail, yahoo, etc.), it suddenly occurs to me why i should give pop mail a little more credit than i do: when you download it to your computer, it's yours. you're no longer at the mercy of a random policy change on the remote server which may may potentially wipe out all your sent mail without notice or recourse (and yes, i recognize the irony of this link). your mail won't become the "property" of the service, or filtered for "questionable content" or any number of other practices which seem to be becoming common.
heck, it's even true for my campus mail, which they randomly decided to archive a big chunk of (which explained why i couldn't find things i had sent realting to any projects in the last two years).