AVR-Chat

Ok, I've tried to let the topic die because it's well off topic, but I
really think I should chime in.  Many people have brought up good and
bad points of somthing like gmail.

You have to trust someone, I choose to trust google, as one of
500,000, I am far less likely to have a curious technician read my
email than say a local isp with 150 users...  Google from the begining
has disclosed how they do the adwords search, and that they don't pass
information on to others, they have no incentive to lie here, just
liability.  Many other ISPs & email providers are fairly open about
what they can/will do, just read the user agreement for  Hotmail some
time if your interested...  Essentually, everyone has the capability
to read everything, that isn't encrypted, google is just honest about
it, and the adwords are quite useful some times.


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:19:24 +0100, erikc <firewevr@airmail.net> wrote:
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Bill Velek" <billvelek@alltel.net>
>  To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
>  Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 15:06
>  Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
>  
>  
>  >
>  > Dave Hylands wrote:
>  > > The ads from goole are actually pretty innocuous. They
>  appear over on
>  > > the right hand side of your read-message pane. No
>  graphics, just text.
>  > >
>  > > And the part I find really interesting, is that ads are
>  targeted based
>  > > on the content of your email.
>  >
>  > snip
>  >
>  > Hmmmmmm.  I'm not sure how I feel about that ... that
>  Google is
>  > apparently analyzing the content of my emails.  Not that I
>  would ever
>  > use an email for anything illegal, compromising or
>  embarrassing.
>  >
>  > Bill Velek
>  
>  Sounds like a justification in and of itself for using
>  encryption.  Wouldn't have too be too serious, just enough
>  to screw up the Google scanner.  ROT-13 might even work.
>  
>  Erikc
>  
>  "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely  in a
>  well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally
>  worn out, shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!"
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