gmail anyone?

[Pybe]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 08:48 -0500, Mike Newman wrote:
> 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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There are many scripts available that allow you to 'backup' your whole
gmail or just a label into mbox format. Google for them.


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