Thanks for asking Bill I don't know either. Richard A Sharpe (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 Amherst Technologies 40 Continental Blvd Merrimack, NH 03054 PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith")
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sconce > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 2:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: philosophical question about gmail > > This is going to hurt. I'm going to have to admit ignorance, > not just of the usual sort, but in this case near-total ignorance. > > What is gmail? > > > > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:41:07 -0400 > "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Some of the members of this list have not signed Gmail's user > > agreement (let's call this Group A). Others have (let's > these people > > Group B). > > Wait a minute. The ignorance is not total. I know one > thing. I know that I'm in Group A. I haven't signed > ANYONE's user agreement recently. > (Actually, I haven't signed anyone's user agreement for at > least several years now, not since I converted to Linux.) > > > > It takes some amount of effort to belong to this group. Why should > > the efforts of Group A be available to Gmail (in the form > of raw data, > > marketing data, and potential advertising revenues) simply because > > Group B decided to sign Gmail's user agreement? > > That sounds like a good question. > > > > Just wondering. I haven't made up my mind yet about Gmail. > > OK. I'm wondering too. > > (I did a search of gnhlug, found "gmail" in the subject of > only two messages, this one from Kevin and the one where Jeff > says he's run out of friends. Some of us probably don't know > what a "gmail invitation" is either.) > > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss