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Use google mail
Thank goodness somebody gets it! "Public" servers, for mail, IM, etc., are exactly that: public. Every time you use one of these servers you are giving information to a 3rd party about one of your "friends", typically without their permission.
Would you walk into a Walmart or Starbucks and fill out someone else's personal information and post it on the bulletin board? For any purpose? When you send email with personal information (what that consists of is up to each person to decide!), especially from a public server, you're infringing on the other party's privacy. How rude. Obviously the public servers serve a purpose, but people use them willy-nilly for any old thing, and all that information gets stored and mined (by most providers, not just gmail). You think your IM conversations aren't saved in some huge archives? You don't care? How about all the people you IM and email? Did you bother to ask? And "services" (purposely in quotes) like Plaxo are just plain evil. They encourage you to put other people's personal information into their databases and (last I checked) don't provide any way to remove it - ever. Wonder what they do with all that info.... Bottom line: ALWAYS ASK IN ADVANCE before you put anyone ELSE'S information online. That goes for .mac servers too. Do you have your address book online or backed up online? Is it encrypted? Did you ask every single person in it if they wanted their personal information made available to other party(s)? Grrr, better stop before I start frothing.... :-) There is no such thing as a free meal. Your communication with Gmail may be safe, but the data you put there are not. If you, like me, do most of your communication via email, your entire life will be there for Google to mine. If you have exhibitionistic tendencies, go for it.
Use google mail
I guess my stupid question is: what are they going to do with that information? I understand where you are coming from and what you are saying, but have you ever been contacted by a email server because you sent to email to someone who uses there "services"? I sure haven't and I highly doubt that google is going there every email just to find information to exploit. I really wouldn't be too worried about this. |
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