Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Apr 14, at 08:22PM, Justin wrote: | I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the | Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message | content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. I only say something because I have

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:22 PM 4/14/2004, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. Unacceptable to whom, and what should

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Apr 14, at 08:22PM, Justin wrote: | I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the | Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message | content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. I only say something because I have

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:22 PM 4/14/2004, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. Unacceptable to whom, and what should

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-14 Thread Justin
Dave Howe (2004-04-13 14:11Z) wrote: Justin wrote: It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties. It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from sender to recipient, one of which is

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-14 Thread Justin
Dave Howe (2004-04-13 14:11Z) wrote: Justin wrote: It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties. It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from sender to recipient, one of which is

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tuesday 2004 April 13 17:26, sunder wrote: Pete Capelli wrote: Since when is there a guarantee of privacy in email?? Smartass reply Since PhilZ wrote PGP?/Smartass reply But then, only if you use PGP (or GnuPG or what have you). -- Shawn K. Quinn

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Dave Howe
Riad S. Wahby wrote: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service Gmail because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. Is she planning to block all the

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote: A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit should be removed from office forthwith. And based on this [quite valid] criteria, we should remove 90+ percent

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Justin
Riad S. Wahby (2004-04-13 01:49Z) wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20040412/wr_nm/tech_google_dc_1 A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit should be removed from office

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Dave Howe
Justin wrote: It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties. It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from sender to recipient, one of which is not a party to the contract. There's no

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Gil Hamilton
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riad S. Wahby (2004-04-13 01:49Z) wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20040412/wr_nm/tech_google_dc_1 A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread An Metet
Really, what's the difference between scanning the message in order to, say, render HTML tags it may contain, and scanning it in order to generate targetted advertising based on keywords it contains? That's irrelevant. These arguments that Gmail is just like other services are nothing but red

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tuesday 2004 April 13 17:26, sunder wrote: Pete Capelli wrote: Since when is there a guarantee of privacy in email?? Smartass reply Since PhilZ wrote PGP?/Smartass reply But then, only if you use PGP (or GnuPG or what have you). -- Shawn K. Quinn

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-12 Thread Dave Howe
Riad S. Wahby wrote: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service Gmail because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. Is she planning to block all the