OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

Pietro Cerutti gahr at gahr.ch
Wed Feb 6 23:03:48 UTC 2008


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other
>> than the absolutely annoying way it quotes,  what is wrong with gmail?
>>
> 
> think other way.
> 
> imagine you have service with 5000 mail account.
> 
> would it be worth for you of extra work of writing all user data,
> analyzing it, storing forever? i don't think so.
> 
> now imagine you provide 500000000 mail accounts. no things are different.
> 
> you can get billions storing everything and closely working with
> government, and even privates - selling the data raw or processed.
> 
> of course not officially, but when talking billions of $ such things, or
> honesty, truth etc. turns to "who cares".
> 
> 
> so stay away from ANY services that large. not just gmail, not just mail
> services at all.

Someone's over-paranoid in here... spy satellites, providers selling
sensitive data, neighbors staring at your wife undressing while you're
at work... who cares?

Just my 2cents to decrease SNR even more...


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Pietro Cerutti

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