Re: Gmail users - be careful

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:53:08 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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JohnH wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:16:54 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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I've had Google for a while, and I haven't experianced any of those
types of problems. I can pretty well detect SPAM seeing that I don't
really get much mail from there anyhow. . and if I saw that I sent one
to myself, I wouldn't open it . I'd junk it.

You've had Google WHAT? Which product are you referring to?

pardon me, "G-mail"


Well, I think it's odd that a for-profit company uses the content of your
email to generate income. All email is potentially subject to surveillance,
but Google's routine is odd, to say the least. I wonder how many people
don't even notice.


That was the point of my original post. I agree with all the folks that say
email is subject to being intercepted, read, etc. But, I don't know of any
email providers who scan every message looking for key words which will be
used for targeted advertising (or for anything else the company wishes).

Thanks, but no thanks.
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Try sending yourself some email to yahoo and hotmail with key words and
see if you dont see more of the same kind of ads.

Nope, nothing close. Real estate ads and hairspray. I wrote about
motorcycles and cameras.

Besides, Yahoo is only for this group
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John H

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