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Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
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Which email service for the Zombie Apocalypse?
So which email service would you use or do you use that you trust will keep going at least until you die and probably long after, Zombies or no?
My short list: Gmail, Microsoft/Outlook.com, Apple Mail and that's it. That's one reason I am wary of using most services for my main, central email. I'm not confident that companies won't sell, collapse, or change drastically to the point I am either forced to leave or want to leave. Thoughts? |
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Cornerstone of the Community
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 713
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If zombies take over, we have bigger problems than email!
![]() However, up until civilization collapses, any service that allows custom domain names, so I can change providers when needed, and I'll ride it out until my zombie bunker's generator dies. But definitely, Gmail, Outlook.com, and Apple mail will be the LAST options for me. Anything but those. However, if those are the last three options, I'll decide then. |
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Join Date: May 2022
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Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
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The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Holon, Israel.
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I believe FastMail will be around as long as email is useful for communications and a few people are willing to pay for it..
The email services by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. would be around as long as email is useful, unless some alternative arises that they decide is more beneficial to them to the point of closing the email services to force users to replace email by someother communications media they offer. Right now there's no such alternative, but we have seen various attempts to develop alternatives in the past two decades. None of them came close yet. Some of them disappeared (remember Google Wave?). Some of them are around and though right now they don't seem to threaten email, they might be able to replace it in the future (for instance where I live Whatsapp replaced most uses of email, and being one of the few that still insists of staying out of that walled garden I am left out). |
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Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
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Can you imagine the disruption that would be caused if one of the biggies decided to shut down email? At this point it is like postal mail--so vital to society that it will endure no matter what new communication mediums are invented. If Gmail shut down half the usernames for other services would suddenly be invalidated.
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Join Date: Sep 2022
Posts: 52
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Having access to a working social media would be more important than email, come the appearance of the Four Horsemen.
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Location: USA
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Join Date: Sep 2022
Posts: 52
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In reality, Amateur/Ham radio would probably be the only means of communication.
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Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
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I suppose Amateur/Ham radio could be considered "social media" the way it is used. But, I was thinking more specifically about what email service you would consider most bulletproof and reliable while the Internet is still standing.
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