Cloud Computing; For the Birds? YES!

I've been using the interface (written in Java?) with Yahoo for email for a while now, and let me tell you, the amount of times that I've experienced down time with it is astonishing!

They certainly don't owe me anything as I give them no money, and rarely ever click on their ads, but the point is, that people are are being expected to rely on this, well let me tell you, forget it!

Even if I wanted to just use Amigans.Net for message passing, it's way more reliable, as I've almost never come here and it wasn't up since it began almost 2 years ago.

For instance, a day ago I wanted to read through my email on Yahoo, and I click on the various mail, nothing, no comment, just won't come up. Then there's a way to open a separate tab for any email you choose. I opened 3 tabs, and for 15 minutes every tab opened simply had the comment "loading". I signed out not being able to check my email. I check email very sporadically. Sometimes twice a day, but usually every 5 to 12 days. And I would say that 25% of the time this is what happens.... NOT a good track record.

And they seriously think that you are going to keep all your records and pictures, etc. "out there over the rainbow"? HAH!

Buy 4 CF cards, a few DVD +-Rs, store in several places and be done with it!

@Atheist

I'm big fan of simple client with proper imap support. If AOS4 had a native pine, it would be great, but now I have very good solution:
sylpheed under cygnix, courtesy of Edgar.
2 imap accounts + 2 gmail addresses over imap.
Both gmails forward to one of the imaps (the default inbox) and leave copy for themselves.
When I reply on the forwarded from gmail messages, the client is smart enough to send it from the appropriate gmail account.
Pity simplemail isn't there imap-support-wise....

Jack