Re: 30 Gmail Invites

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