[AccessD] OT: gmail by google turns 1 today.

paranois will self-destroy ya

On Apr 1, 2005 6:28 PM, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From the Privacy Policy at Gmail:
> 
> >    - We collect limited account information and store and maintain your
> >    account and email messages on our secure servers.
> >    - We will never rent, sell or share information that personally
> >    identifies you for marketing purposes without your express permission.
> >    - We serve highly relevant ads and other information as part of the
> >    service using our unique content-targeting technology. No human reads your
> >    email to target ads or related information to you without your consent.
> >    - You can update your account information and preferences at any
> >    time.
> >
> >
> The portion that you are worried about from that paranoid site is derived
> info from this statment on the policy
> 
> Because we keep back-up copies of data for the purposes of recovery from
> > errors or system failure, residual copies of email may remain on our systems
> > for some time, even after you have deleted messages from your mailbox or
> > after the termination of your account. Google employees do not access the
> > content of any mailboxes unless you specifically request them to do so (for
> > example, if you are having technical difficulties accessing your account) or
> > if required by law, to maintain our system, or to protect Google or the
> > public.
> 
> this statment makes a lot of sense because if they delete your account but
> your data is on backups, it makes sense they won't go into the backups and
> delete your email there. but it also gives you a saftey to be able to go
> back and access an email that you thought might have been lost for ever.
> 
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005 1:53 PM, Heenan, Lambert <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com> wrote:
> >
> > Did you miss these comments on the site...
> >
> > "Google admits that even deleted messages will remain on their system, and
> > may also be accessible internally at Google, for an indefinite period of
> > time."
> >
> > "Google has never been known to delete any of the data they've collected,
> > since day one."
> >
> > There's no such thing as a free lunch, especially where marketing people
> > are
> > involved. :-)
> >
> > Lambert
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [SMTP:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
> > > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:39 PM
> > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: gmail by google turns 1 today.
> > >
> > > So delete your old gmail. That's what I do.
> > >
> > > Charlotte Foust
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lavsa, Rich [mailto:Rich_Lavsa at pghcorning.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:24 AM
> > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: gmail by google turns 1 today.
> > >
> > >
> > > Reason why I avoided GMAIL..
> > >
> > > http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Boogie Loogie
> > > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:15 PM
> > > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> > > Subject: [AccessD] OT: gmail by google turns 1 today.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have been using gmail (www.gmail.com <http://www.gmail.com>) for
> > awhile now and I must admit
> > > that the service is excellent. They have upped the free account from 1
> > > gig of storage to 2 gig...WOW.
> > >
> > > For using this mailing list I have yet to find something better for
> > > organinzing the messages. If any of you want a freebie account I will
> > > send you an invite. I have 49 left.
> > >
> > > email me at boogieloogie at gmail.com
> > >
> > > Later
> > >
> > > BL
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