[plug] [OT] Gmail Opinions

[Kai]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> | Have many other people tried out Gmail yet? I've had an account a few days so 
> | far, and have forwarded my gazillion E-mails thru it. I'm interested in what 
> | other people think of the functionality, and also any Tinfoil Hat opinions 
> | (http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/).
> 
> The Gmail-is-too-creepy folks seem a bit nutty to me -- but then, I'm
> used to the idea of e-mails being kept around forever (because that's
> what I tend to do myself) and potentially being harvested by
> God-knows-who.  (I suppose I bought into the whole "unencrypted email
> shouldn't be considered remotely private" notion, even though in
> practice it is.  Posting lots of stuff to publically archived mailing
> lists gets you in the habit of thinking that way too.)  I suppose the
> centralisation of Gmail could be a little unnerving though.

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I wonder if the people who made this site have read the EULA that comes 
with Hotmail, Mail.com, Yahoo and other web based email ? I haven't read 
Hotmail's EULA for a while but it wouldn't surprise me if MS has added 
some clauses in there to say that that own you and your first born.