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by mindslight 4468 days ago
"Webmail" generally implies that a large company owns and administers the server, and messages are stored on it indefinitely - in other words, completely out of your control and subject to the inherent corruption that centralization brings. Remember back in the day when you wouldn't take someone with a @hotmail or @yahoo address seriously? We shouldn't have stopped just because the domain changed to @gmail.