[ale] What's so special about gmail invites?

[Geoffrey]

Pete Hardie wrote:
> alelist wrote:
> 
>> Google involves a third party. The advertisers, who may inherit rights
>> and demands in the contract with GMail.
>>
>> Read the links already supplied in these posts..., otherwise most people
>> would think that you do not care for Federal Law - just like Jet Blue!
> 
> 
> How is this any different than Google scanning mailing list archives, 
> and presenting targetted ads to a user browsing the web via Google 
> searches?

Because email list archives are public, personal email I send to 
fool at gmail.com is not. (note I did not say private email..)

> The ads are still presented to the individual using Google, the topics 
> are still public on mailing lists, etc?
> 
> Now, I tend to agree somewhat that it seems a bit naive to use gmail for 
> personal email, if only because it means that someone may at some point 
> get 1TB of your personal stuff in the Google Chapter 11 firesale, but 
> you already send email to people who may be archiving it and analyzing 
> it for any purpose.

Not in the way, capacity gmail will.

> 
> I mean, corporations wouldn't do anything *illegal* now, even for 
> profit, would they?

Which corporations would you be alluding to?  Certainly not isps??


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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995