[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 4 12:06:03 CDT 2005


Martin,

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

eg discussion with residents of China regarding politics & censorship in 
China, indeed any discussion that could conceivably be interpreted as 
anti-government where such discussion is proscribed or censored.

Apart from that, if you're happy to have your email commercially 
harvested, you may be just the customer Google has in mind.

PB

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Martin Reid wrote:

>and just what emails would you or I be sending that we would actually worry 
>about?
>
>Martin
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>From: "Josh McFarlane" <darsant at gmail.com>
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
><dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail
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>>On 10/3/05, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>Josh McFarlane wrote:
>>>Follow the money. Some of that cash goes back to Google, doesn't it?
>>>      
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>>Not from the sale of the product, but only from advertising on Google.
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>>>The question concerned email, not surfing. I'd use such a company for
>>>email only in an emergency & preferably not at all.
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>>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?
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>>--
>>Josh McFarlane
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>>"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
>>-Albert Einstein
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