Plus, everybody knows that Google is a gigantic bot-net, stealing our information. It's why I only run Linux, using Firefox, and browsing with Bing.
Never trust huge corporations, my friend. Never.
Then I strongly suggest you consider hushmail as an alternative - it's the only webmail I know that uses full encryption.
Welcome to my game, happy to hear that it's popular even on remote ranches. I'm serious, that's not a snide remark if it sounded like that (terribly tired today, so not sure if everything I say comes across as I mean it).