On Jan 25, 2008 8:58 AM, Jason Pruim <japruim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> On Jan 25, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Eric Butera wrote:>> > On Jan 25, 2008 8:43 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >> On 25/01/2008, Eric Butera <eric.butera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >>>>>> not to mention the 'all-your-email-belong-to-us' aspect of> >>>>>> world googlisation.> >>>>>> >>>>> yeah, that's exactly why I don't use gmail> >>>>> >>>> That's why I use gmail for lists, but not for work or personal> >>>> mail.> >>>> The spam filtering is great, and so is the interface, but I want my> >>>> personal email on my own disk space.> >>>> >>> You do realize that your personal email does go across the wire in> >>> plain text, right? :)> >>>> >>> >> Doesn't bother me one bit (pun intended). I meant that I like to have> >> my email safe where I can accidentally rm it rather than on Google's> >> servers. I don't consider list mail as "my mail".> >>> >>> >> Dotan Cohen> >>> >> http://what-is-what.com> >> http://gibberish.co.il> >> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-> >> ק-ר-ש-ת> >>> >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.> >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?> >>> >> > Ah, ok! I just know a lot of people got really upset about Google> > showing context specific ads on email. I just always smile at this> > wondering why people think any other form of plain/text is so much> > more secure.>>> I've always believed that if I'm going to get subjected to ads (Which> of course I do) I want them to be as specific as possible... Don't> show me the benefits of estrogen treatments :)>>>> -->> Jason Pruim> Raoset Inc.> Technology Manager> MQC Specialist> 3251 132nd ave> Holland, MI, 49424> www.raoset.com> japruim@xxxxxxxxxx> Which is why Google is friendly enough to provide a link to a map ofyour address when I view this thread, or track packages any timesomeone posts a large number (e.g. in a script example) that happensto match a pattern that any of several major companies like UPS orFedEx. As for the sponsored links? Five ways from Sunday to search fore-mail addresses. I can understand why they want to put the links there. It's just thatthere are so many places (especially in e-mail) where the links aren'tgoing to make sense. Andrew
