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The thing I have never understood is why people want to use email like
yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc. Unless they love spam. ;)
I can have up to 10 FREE emails at my ISP. I only have two! And use only
one of them. Why would I want or need any more? And I deffinately don't
want a spam email.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: gmail (was Re: off topic - OT - another one this time
its "email provider")
>also some readings about gmail: http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Just about everything has a counterpoint these days. That article
above talks about the *potential* for bad stuff, and where it
actually demonstrates bad stuff, it's related to ads -- to which
I say, who cares? I don't look at the ads. I do sometimes look
at the non-ad relevant links that gmail chooses to put next to the
content on my display.
The article also bases its arguments on shaky ground, for example,
the point about three clicks to trash a message being too onerous,
is ridiculous. Select the message, move to trash, just like any
other mail client. The article says it's easier to archive; wrong.
It's about the same, or more because you usually want to label the
message first (analogous to putting it in a folder).
Nowhere do you have to reveal personal information. You don't even
have to use your real name.
-Alex
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