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> On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:03 PM, J T. Ramsay wrote:
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>> Cloud computing is just a sexier way to describe what we've been
>> doing with email for years.
>>
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> I would like to know what some people have been doing with my email
> for years, but suspect that data will remain clouded.
>
> 'cloud' is so loaded with 'aetherial' context it seems best left to
> the imagination. Does it have anything in common with torrent swarming?
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> Yes, wiki says that it does. It's a revenue stream, too. That may have
> been the handle that the original poster was looking for.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Computing
> >
>
yeah. i still didn't get an answer to what the hell "we" have been doing with email all this years! it's such a wide open statement, i wasn't really sure what JT meant.