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Originally Posted by shnu  Of course, if you are after high-reliability, there is no recourse if GMail fails to forward your data. |
If you backup something you should check from time to time if the backup is right.
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The issue is not just speculative. A poster pointed out the tools that exist to use GMail as an offline backup medium. Doing this puts you out of your Terms of Service, and accounts have been yanked for doing just this.
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There is a difference between backing up your mail per pop3 and using a third party tool to use googles space to backup other tools.
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Google have been about the most ethical player in the unethical world of data-mining, but they are in a far better position (knowledge, resources) than others to misuse what they have, and they have got things wrong before.
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You don't need that much resouces to abuse data. Whether AOL, Yahoo or MSN, they all have large data centers and can practially match google in datamining of an emailaccount.
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if AOL yanks your account for violating the TOS, you are in a much better position to complain about it.
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Complaining about it doesn't help you much if AOL screwed up your data (or releases it to the whole internet like the did which their search querys but that another point about AOL).