Now, this is on topic. The email scanning that is done by Gmail is the same that is done by spam filtering and virus scanning. Do you actively discourage your clients to not use anti-virus or anti-spam software? All free email services profit from advertising, or they would not exist. Other services, such as Yahoo and Hotmail both serve ads from external domains, which gives them access to referer information and anything else passed in ad requests or Iframes. More information about the user is divulged and is a greater privacy concern. In Gmail, ads are served directly from Google, and no personal information is divulged to the advertiser. So, what are the technical reasons you discourage people from using Gmail? On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:39:43 -0700, Lou Katz <lou@metron.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:13:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Joshua Brady wrote:
I've got 2 Gmail invites up for grabs for the first 2 to email me offlist.
You know, I'm having trouble finding people that *don't* have gmail.com accounts already. :P
Because G-mail scans INCOMING mail without the sender's consent, we will NEVER have a G-mail account and have considered blocking them. We actively discourage our clients from using this service. If you want to let a service scan YOUR mail, it is your perogative, but you cannot give them permission to scan MY mail to you.
YMMV.
-Jonathan "G-mail-less" Nichols
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