Absolutely no one in government should implement a 'private email server'...

[SheilaT]

2. I agree.

What's actually incredibly scary to me is the apparent ignorance of technology in the government.

I'm a year or so younger than Hillary, and I'll be the first to tell you that I'm somewhat behind the technology. No smart phone for me. But I'm not Secretary of State. I do use as much technology as I'm comfortable with, but someone in the government should be far ahead of someone like me.

I am aware that many parts of our government are behind the times technologically. I know that a decade or so the air traffic control system was in a huge crisis because back in about 1968 some genius at the FAA said, "Lease computers? Are you kidding? We'll BUY them!" and so four decades later they were still using 1968 technology, and were in a real bind about upgrading. Meanwhile, private industry all said, "We'll lease, no problem" and got new computers as needed. For the most part.

My now ex was an IT guy, and in the early 90's was hired to upgrade the computer system of a very large wholesale liquor distributor in the Midwest. They'd bought a computer system some years earlier, never upgraded, and now were in a real crisis mode. Ex was hired, got them the new computer system they needed, and then stayed on because he was able to persuade management that they needed to constantly keep abreast of things, not wait until it was a crisis again.

That's a personal story that has not very much to do with the e-mail server issue, but serves to indicate how complex the technology is, and how easy it is to do something wrong.