I have the setting in mine now, and it does include this line: If people who aren't in your circles send you email this way, you must agree before they can send you more
Meaning, that at most, they'll be able to send you one spam. Also, the article says they have to be following you, and I always block people I don't know when they add me to their circles... Also, I did change my setting to only my extended circles; so I'm not too bothered by this change. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Jeff Grossman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:18 AM, billhansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The New York Times reports today that very soon, users of Gmail Plus will >> be able to send emails to anyone, even if they don't have the recipient's >> email address. According to the Times Google just announced this on January >> 9. It is not a proposal or anything hypothetical; it's an >> accomplished fact, "the latest move by Google to weave its social network >> into all of its products and to strongly push users to sign up for Google >> Plus.". The new "feature" will be On by default, but supposedly Gmail users >> will be able to turn it Off in the "Settings" dropdown of Gmail. >> >> I'm wondering how much money the various mass marketers paid Google to >> implement this. In other times this invasion of privacy would prompt >> thousands of people to defect from Google, but we've all become so used to >> "sharing" every bit of our selves that Google apparently decided there was >> money to be made, with little downside risk. >> >> We all need to watch our emails carefully, and then attend to our >> Settings (opt out), if we don't want to drown in a tsumani of mass >> marketing. Once those mailing floodgates are open, I think all of us, >> whether we're Gmail Plus users or not, will soon be on everybody's mass >> mailing list, spending a lot of time trying to separate our legitimate >> email from the marketings. I guess we also need to be thinking about >> alternatives to Gmail. I like Gmail a lot - but I sure don't like spam. >> > > In the settings you are supposed to be able to turn this off. It has not > been turned on for me yet so I cannot see the setting that needs to be > turned off. > > Btw, it is Google Plus, not Gmail Plus. > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
