I find I would rather have my own email archive. I do it already and it makes me more comfortable to be in charge of my emails. If I am having another take charge of my email archiving, how am I to know that they will not use what I have said or others have said to me against me? I just think in terms of dealing with the archive, I would prefer to have it accessible to me as I see fit. It is my private property; it is my thoughts and responses to my thoughts. It is mine.
Some might argue that creating an email archive on my own is tantamount to setting me up for a loss. Hard drives do fail. Programs change and connections can be lost or degraded. I am willing to take this kind of risk seeing that ultimately these are my own risks. I feel that relying on another to be able access, protect or even find something I need puts me at a disadvantage.
Still, many would prefer not to have to deal with the whole idea of keeping any kind of an archive let alone an entire mailing archive. They find the programs confusing or darn right too hard to deal with. They are afraid of doing the wrong thing, pushing the wrong button or losing where the archive is being stored. Some times they lose the program that they use to create the email hosting setup and all they have is something that is not able to be opened. That presents a quandary that is just a frustration. Most people are frustrated enough without having another program create a frustration for them.
Even with these negatives, taking the time to learn to do my own technical archiving makes me in control of my correspondence. I prefer to have the control that doing my own archive presents to me. I do not have to worry about someone else looking through my old emails and reading my private correspondence. I can take pride in learning a new skill. I have the satisfaction of finding what I want when I want it. I do not have to be at the mercy of some outside company and that company’s handlers as to when I have access to my own private correspondence. I definitely do not find it a negative to be in control of my own emails.
My significant reason to control and create my own email setup is security. I am not egotistical in the sense that I have great or damning information in my emails that I need to be in total control of my business. Nor do I feel that I have such great prose in my emails that someone would be looking to plagiarize what I or my correspondences have written to one another. Nor do I feel that I have any particular hidden jewels or treasures in my email archive. What I do feel is since all of this was sent to me or me to others, it is mine and I have the freedom to keep what is mine unless there is any compelling reason to let another or anyone have access, even the original authors of the original emails (not that I would stop them from seeing some writing of theirs I have in my possession).
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