Well, that was also an enlightening e-mail. I just disabled and deleted all cookies in Firefox, and now I'm going to do as Richard described and setup my own e-mail account. Any good ideas/howto's about how to setup a mail server?
-Peter On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 00:08 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, > 08 Oct 2006 11:42:54 -0400: > > > You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail as > > your personal e-mail? I've heard people saying it's evil, and that google > > is fascist, but I don't really know what to believe. Personally I like the > > features that gmail offers, and I think it's great that it stores all my > > mail ever sent so I can access my old e-mails still if my hard drive gets > > wiped (which happens accidentally or not every month or so). Thoughts? > > For me (as it would seem the OP), it's the whole privacy thing. Google > mines the data to serve ads, and associates that with your search profile > as well (same google-wide master cookie, if I'm not mistaken). While > supposedly no one ever looks at that, only machines, corporate policies > can and do change. As well, if the data is there, it is subject to search > warrant or with Bush run rampant over civil liberties, now with little or > no control whatsoever -- all they have to do is say it's national security > related to grab any existing records, pretty much, and it's getting worse, > not better. > > Yes, there's the same deal to some extent with any mail, specifically > anything that's not encrypted, even if both ends run their own servers, > because it travels over the public internet and is subject to logging > there. However, as I mentioned, I don't like the whole web interface > thing that much either, and then there's the whole thing with the same > company holding the search profile as well. As it is, I don't do cookies > from Google as they are (with most of the rest of the net) set for no > cookies (or session-only) by default. If google has a search profile on > me, it's by IP only, and that changes. To get the link, they'd need to > talk to my ISP, and while government can do that, one would hope google > wouldn't be able to get that info from the ISP. > > So it's a personal privacy thing. No big deal for me tho as I never did > their mail in the first place, so I just don't start. As for others, it's > up to them. What they choose to do is their business. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > -- [email protected] mailing list
