before everything - if you answer me please respect the REPLY-TO and do
it off list, it's off topic here.

there is a new Google fashion social networking venture thing called
Orkut. I know there are a few geeks from this community on it, so I post
this here, but I don't intend to open a discussion on the list.

I got invited, it's tempting to try it out but 14 years on the internet
made me a bit paranoid of such ventures. Google offers webmail with huge
storage but you pay for it with the content-specific ads that dig the
text of your private mail. now they give you a social network but
apperently if you dare discuss anything meant to be private on it,
gOOgLe OwnZ J00:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/05/google_revives_discredited_microsoft_privacy/
http://www.orkut.com/terms.aspx

So, dear friends in geekdom, freedom and privacy lovers, am I paranoid
without reason?

your input and opinions are wellcome off the list, and sorry for the
interruption.

-- 
Ambassador of Funkytown
Ira Abramov
http://ira.abramov.org/email/

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