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Even personally, I only use gmail as an address that forwards to other addresses where I can use less proprietary clients, e.g., Thunderbird, to do all the actual stuff I want to do. It's fine for me to have a gmail account (or two) that helps with archiving a lot of my stuff. I still keep copies on one of my systems at home, and I only rarely actually use gmail directly -- perhaps as often as once every three months.

But for business...?

Tom Liotta

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I can't see how any business for that matter could "get away with" using something like especially gmail for business functions. It's too open, there are liability issues, plus the fact that gaggle is churning everything through its processors and extracting every kind of business data they can get ahold of. Especially a publicly traded company.

--Alan