I would use Gmail if you like Gmail, and be clear to the sysadmin that this is what you are doing. Perhaps the two of you can come up with a solution for essential communications between the two of you, but I am not sure what the sysadmin thinks the alternative should be in your current situation.
I do think that if someone is concerned about the privacy of their communication, they should be not using email at all or encrypting it. If I don't want people to know something I don't write it down - I do assume that anything I write down and send by email or publish on LJ (even under "locked" posts) can and probably will leak someday.
Now, I use Gmail for LJ comment notifications, and for various mailing lists (freecycle, flylady, ukmidwifery), where the searching and filtering capacity is extremely useful. I also use it for a lot of the throwaway email addresses for which I use my chiark account, but most personal mail is to rach@gits or rachel@lspace and ends up on hermes (and is filtered away into a "personal mail" folder there so that my main inbox stays roughly work-related). I'm employed to retiring age by the university and I certainly don't envisage leaving any time soon, so this works for me.
There is no way I am going to run my own mail service, and I honestly don't see how the arguments against Gmail are not also arguments against *any* commercial email service. Gmail is more explicit about it, which I think counts in its favour.
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Date: 2006-11-22 01:49 pm (UTC)I do think that if someone is concerned about the privacy of their communication, they should be not using email at all or encrypting it. If I don't want people to know something I don't write it down - I do assume that anything I write down and send by email or publish on LJ (even under "locked" posts) can and probably will leak someday.
Now, I use Gmail for LJ comment notifications, and for various mailing lists (freecycle, flylady, ukmidwifery), where the searching and filtering capacity is extremely useful. I also use it for a lot of the throwaway email addresses for which I use my chiark account, but most personal mail is to rach@gits or rachel@lspace and ends up on hermes (and is filtered away into a "personal mail" folder there so that my main inbox stays roughly work-related). I'm employed to retiring age by the university and I certainly don't envisage leaving any time soon, so this works for me.
There is no way I am going to run my own mail service, and I honestly don't see how the arguments against Gmail are not also arguments against *any* commercial email service. Gmail is more explicit about it, which I think counts in its favour.