> David, I completely agree. I set up a Gmail account specifically for
> lists to which I am subscribed.
>
> Because Gmail just does lists, I don't have security issues; a) they
> are public to begin with, so I don't care who reads my mail at google,
> and b) they might be stored on a machine that I don't own, a couple of
> thousand miles away, but if they vanish tomorrow, who cares.
>
> Of course, my regular email I handle exactly as I did before.
>
> My rationale is that Google is the king of search, so I should be able
> to find things that I remember seeing in my lists, even if it was many
> months ago.
>
> I create "labels" for each list, which are applied automatically by
> the incoming filters.
I'm using gmail in the same way, for the same reasons.
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