Hello Tony, Friday, December 24, 2004, 2:11:21 PM, you wrote:
> What really fascinates me is the amount of people who want everything for > nothing regardless of the cost to anyone else. > I don't expect anything for nothing, if I like something I pay for it. If I > can > get something for nothing at the expense of the odd advert then that's one up > to me, no one else, me, I consider that a result. I agree with most of what you wrote. And I am certainly a proponent of the idea of what *you* do is *your* business as long as it's only your business, affecting you, etc. I think one important issue with Gmail (and soon to be others I'm sure) that seems to get lost is that while you have elected to be OK with the e-mail scanning associated with Gmail, those that you correspond with may not be. So while I can respect your decision to allow Gmail's policies (scanning your mail) for you, I have a hard time with the idea of you deciding that for people you correspond with. This is really my only real problem with Gmail. And with the POP/Forwarding options than can be used now, I'm not so sure if only mail sent from me to a gmail address is susceptible to being scanned - what happens when that gets forwarded/read through Gmail? Note that I'm against this in principal - I consider e-mail to be inherently NOT private (save for PGP messages and such) - and don't make a habit of sending personal/private/secure info via e-mail. But I don't think most of the world operates this way, and I can't help that nagging feeling that people who don't even know what Gmail is are having their messages read for advertising purposes. -- Best regards, ken mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
