[Techtalk] Gmail (was questions re installing gcc-3.4.2)

[Gretchen Dziengel]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:49:50PM -0700 or thereabouts, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> What concerns me about gmail is that they keep it and
> search it - it would be availble for the govt to access.
> It is nobody's business.
> 
> I have no idea what gmail is like. Do you have to login
> to google and access it like people do with hotmail and
> yahoo email accounts?
> 
> 
I have a gmail account - It's exactly like hotmail and yahoo as far as
accessing it.  The way they organize threads is pretty good.  (They call
it conversations)  Instead of each message listed seperately they list
each thread once and when you click on it it displays all the messages
on one page.

I'm not worried about some automated process scanning my e-mails and
displaying ads.  Gmail's privacy statement says my e-mails will remain
private unless they are required by law to disclose them and so on.  No
different than any other company with my information.

The point is Gmail is no different than any other webmail as far as
privacy is concerned.  Google just tells you they are scanning so you
get good ads where as I haven't been able to find any statements from
Hotmail about the privacy of the content of my messages.  Not that I use
either Hotmail or Gmail for anything important.  Gmail isn't impressive
enough for me to give up procmail and mutt.

Gretchen