[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

and just what emails would you or I be sending that we would actually worry 
about?

Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh McFarlane" <darsant at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail


> On 10/3/05, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Josh McFarlane wrote:
>> Follow the money. Some of that cash goes back to Google, doesn't it?
>
> Not from the sale of the product, but only from advertising on Google.
>
>> The question concerned email, not surfing. I'd use such a company for
>> email only in an emergency & preferably not at all.
>
> If your idealogy on this is that you're no safer with Hotmail than
> Gmail, then I can see what you're thinking. If you're trying to claim
> Gmail is worse then other web-based email providers, well, what's some
> proof?
>
>> That misses the pont entirely. Trust of due process in western
>> democracies is arguably rational. But Google operates worldwide. Do you
>> trust due process in China, Nigeria, Iran?
>
> Same could be claimed of Rogers. The web is worldwide. If the company
> is based out of the US but Nigeria has an ongoing investigation, and
> requests information, the company will have to deal with it. Whether
> that means handing over the information or letting the US government
> decide how to handle the issue, something would still have to be done,
> regardless of whether it's Google or Rogers. Also, nothing is saying
> that Google is going to hand over all of this information everytime
> foreign governments ask for it. Once again however, they are also not
> the only free-email provider that is multinational. Microsoft and
> Yahoo also both deal with overseas companies.
>
> --
> Josh McFarlane
>
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