gmail anyone?

[Mike Newman]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:16:21 +1100, Nicholas Comino <celloworld at gmail.com> wrote:
> If it's an automated process that does not record permanently any personally
> identifying information that is onsold for any reason, then I don't have a
> problem with it so much. They are far more up front with what they do and
> how they do it than any other freeware company (have you ever read the
> clauses in contracts where they say that there may be 3rd party licenses in
> the software which you are agreeing to because they're being referred to,
> and which include the spyware/adward/virus clauses??). I don't want to
> discourage their honesty. At least till someone shows they aren't all they
> seem, I'll trust them. ~Nick

Besides, e-mail isn't private in any regard, unless you're encrypting
everything with OpenPGP. That is perhaps my one criticism of Gmail:
it's very hard to work PGP/GPG into things, unless you pull your mail
down with POP3 (but if you're going to do that, why not just use your
ISP's e-mail account?)
For a while I've wanted them to implement a system whereby only
e-mails with a certain label (say, Archive) are POPable. This would
make backups of important messages easier, but you could also set up a
filter that only makes encrypted messages available through POP.

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