On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:32, Rex Johnston wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:07, Rex Johnston wrote: > >>Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >>>>Doh! Gmail has a Reply To: Header. > >>>>Is that configurable? > >>> > >>>Yes, but not to a null field. > >> > >>That is uncharacteristically stupid. > > > > I beg to differ, imho, it's a stroke of ultimate genius, because they > > know that knowledge is power and fully appreciate that if they siphon / > > vacuum the World's email into their own searchable repositories, they > > will, in time, become exceedingly wealthy by charging inordinate search > > fees, separately no doubt, to all the World's various TLAs etc., etc. > > But you *can* set it to be whatever you want, it doesn't need to be your > gmail account. The problem then, is, that you can't subscribe to > multiple email lists with one account. Oh well, they'll be freely > available soon enough. > > Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by > stupidity.
I wish I could, but Google and stupidity are mutually exclusive in the same sentence. They have the highest ratio of Phds to mere-mortals of any company in the world. I think Gmail is a fantastic idea, but I have a very real fear that it will be abused by a "Government of the Day" sometime in the future. The general population of the New World countries have very little appreciation of history and therefore little ability to learn what it has to teach us. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
