On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:18:11 -0700, Philip Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday, Jul 8, 2004, at 01:49 America/Vancouver, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
Isn't anyone else concerned about the privacy violation implicit in letting google's robots paw through a gigabyte of their mail, everything from list subscriptions to personal mail to order receipts, in order to 'categorize the user' for google's >>> advertisers?
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Suckers born every minute.
I resent the implication, Philip.
Having a bad hair day Brad? You can point out at anytime that I'm large sucker for Mac technologies. I'll be forced to agree.
I consider myself an informed computer user (heck, I was a Support Technician for Information Technology Services in college!), and I'm not worried about what Google might do. I'm not one of those pack-rats who keeps every single email ever sent to me; especially list mail (that's what the archive at shsu.edu is for). Google does, contrary to early reports, have an easy-to-use message deletion feature, and in interviews I've read they've stated that those messages actually get deleted and not saved on a gmail server somewhere.
Just for laughs, send some posts to a gmail account with Arabic translation of "suitcase nuke delivery to Fort Meade confirmed for Sep 11" with a 50 Meg blowfish encrypted attachment of garbage bytes.
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't find that particularly funny.
Ring... ring...ring...:
Bush: Hi, who's that?
OBL: It's me Osama. I've got some good news and some bad news for you Bushy.
Bush: What's that?
OBL: First the good news: I'm giving up.
Bush: And the bad?
OBL: I'll be flying in...
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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