Furthermore... I failed to mention the privacy impact on anyone who writes
to you at that account. This includes me and everyone else on the list.
Beyond simply archiving newsgroup content, which was DejaNews's and Google's
start, gmail now has insidious portals into private and public mailing
lists. What an incredible coup for data mining! Mountain comes to Mohammed.
Last, this "invitation" business is particularly offensive. It reminds me of
a story about a young boy named Tom Sawyer. Aside from that, what an
incredible work of piece of legal and societal manipulation. You not only
volunteered to be infected, you had to actively seek out an infection
source.
It's too late to becry where this is taking us, and please don't take any
part of this as a personal attack. We were headed there from the beginning.
I live in a home paid for in part by revenues from a very large market
research company (my wife, not me). I'm just surprised to find us so far
along that road so quickly. Some days, I feel like Rip Van Winkle awaking
after a brief nap.
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From: "Mike Young" <mikewhy@...>
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> From: "Dave Hylands" <dhylands@...>
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>> Or use gmail....
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> There are some rather severe personal privacy issues with gmail. I hate
> alarmist thought and thinking, but this needs to be said. Your service
> agreement with Google places very few restrictions on how Google can use
> your personal information and email contents. We're all adults here and
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> make our own decisions, but this is one decision you want to make
> consciously. It needed to be said, and now it's said. Someone else can do
> this next time...
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