[edit: a famous bit of company-is-a-feature carnage for reference: STAC vs. Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics ]
Which makes me wonder why Matt can't get this championed internally or for someone's 20% project?
I've been baulking at Firefox 4's "sync" today because the data is on their server with their key. A bit 1990's me thinks.
There's no way I'm trusting my email, or anyone else's, to another third party.
I imagine I manage this like most folk, I forward gmail to my server and procmail from there. Works great.
Gmail could do that by pairing the OAuth access with a set of permissions which would basically be the filters Matt describes. The way other services (Facebook comes to mind) are doing it basically.
i dunno about others, but I wouldn't want some third party site to get the full email with my name/address for example.
Or if it's not the case, could someone explain to me how linking the startup server with other companies would work? (Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the technologies mentioned in the article.)
I stopped using them because I didn't like the opt-out style of filtering, but the technology is cool.
