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Re: 30 Gmail Invites
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:12:14 -0500 (CDT)
From owner-nanog () merit edu Sat Sep 11 21:58:47 2004 From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com> To: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com> Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: 30 Gmail Invites Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400 In message <g38ybgi5nd.fsf () sa vix com>, Paul Vixie writes:i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. not just "anyone on nanog". anyone, anywhere, ever. the reasons "why not" are compelling enough. but there are no counterbalancing reasons "why to", either compelling or otherwise.I agree. The privacy implications are *really* scary. (And they're sufficiently worse for non-subscribers that I've contemplated blocking gmail-bound messages from my (personal) systems.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb From owner-nanog () merit edu Sat Sep 11 21:58:47 2004 From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com> To: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com> Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: 30 Gmail Invites Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400 In message <g38ybgi5nd.fsf () sa vix com>, Paul Vixie writes:i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. not just "anyone on nanog". anyone, anywhere, ever. the reasons "why not" are compelling enough. but there are no counterbalancing reasons "why to", either compelling or otherwise.I agree. The privacy implications are *really* scary. (And they're sufficiently worse for non-subscribers that I've contemplated blocking gmail-bound messages from my (personal) systems.)
While we're on _that_ subject, what about Postini, or Brightmail, or -any- other big provider (e.g. SBC/Yahoo) that handles mail for multiple 'client' domains? Every one of those folks also reads and analyzes everybody's incoming mail, including correlating it with mail sent to other destination on their systems. AND correlating source (IP address and/or email address) with content.
Current thread:
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites, (continued)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Daniel Senie (Sep 11)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Patrick W Gilmore (Sep 11)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Nicholas Suan (Sep 12)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Michael . Dillon (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Petri Helenius (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Curtis Maurand (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Richard Cox (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Etaoin Shrdlu (Sep 12)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Patrick W Gilmore (Sep 12)
- Untrustworthy Internet providers Sean Donelan (Sep 12)
- Ivan and outages Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Sep 12)
- Re: Ivan and outages Alex Rubenstein (Sep 12)