The only sensible logic I could come up with is where a new version is broken in some awful way, but an older version is not.
But, obviously, that only works if the people haven't already upgraded.
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I thought that was the sensible solution, though -- you have your own domain names, but then use some reputable e-mail provider for the actual server.
E.g., I use mxroute, and wouldn't imagine setting up the e-mail servers myself, even though I still wind up having to muck about in the DNS records when getting things set up.
On the note of corporate addresses, I remember that I had a bigfoot.com e-mail address, that was supposed to be "permanent", and work as a forwarding thing, as I switched between various ISPs for my e-mail address.
It was significantly less permanent than having my own domains. And, with Google, we never quite know when they're get bored or run into money issues. But some of my domains? I'll probably have them as long as I'm alive, and that's probably long enough.
I'll second that. I've been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.
There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they'll take a loss on it, but... the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it's some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.
Hah! This is kind of like how the one non-telepathic person is still completely unaware. Really is nice that The Onion keeps track.
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Hah, fellow human! I am definitely not a robot and do not need to pass the Turing test.
I, too, am certain a human, and not a robot, who finally got my instance working a couple days ago.
But my server has all of four completely-normal humans (totally NOT robots!!!) who have signed up, so far.
But, yes, it would be nice if more humans like me were to sign up, rather than bots.
It automatically restoring all those unsaved notes has made me so lazy.