Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I would be concerned about a move to Google's new email system.  At 
this point it appears that all email will be "read" by their 
computers to help focus the advertising messages that they deliver.  
While they claim that individual data will not be collected, there 
are very obvious privacy concerns here. There has been a great deal 
of concern expressed since their announcement and I am not sure 
whether they will back off or not.  While privacy on an email list 
may be an oxymoron, the principle is really important.

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> 
> >Searching the archives in a Yahoo Group is incredibly inconvenient.
> >This group has 44,000+ posts right now.  The archives search 
function 
> >searches ~200 messages at a time.  So you have to click "Next" 200 
times to
> 
> >search all the archives.
> >...
> 
> So true.
> 
> Google apparently has a new e-mail system that will include the 
ability to
> search and entire e-mail backlog with their engine.
> 
> I wonder if we could somehow use that capability.  Perhaps they 
have a way
> to set up a shared database.  Are they sponsoring groups like this 
yet?
> 
> I would think, given what their main business is, that they might 
have an
> interest in assisting groups like this as long as the database was 
open to
> them and the world.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com