OFF: Gmail (Re: NIK: HW: Burg Herzberg etc.)

[Drill]

Just looked and it doesn't appear they send ads to you through the POP
service. Only thing evil I've detected is they've turned me into some
kind of unpaid spokesman! It's still on "invite only" but I can't give
away invites fast enough anymore, always having 50 available these
days so anyone who wants just give me an existing address and you'll
receive a link to open an account, and soon you'll have too many of
your own to even keep track of. Watch, I'll open another one within
the next 4 minutes, hmmmm. drill.0000.0000.0010 is good. Password
Hawkwind until some jerkenhoff changes it. Load it with MP3s they all
have to be under 50MB I think.

On 7/21/05, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 12:33 -0400, Drill wrote:
>
> > Gmail is excellent to me and they don't screw around, ever so far. The
> > only problem I had earlier on was logging in with a dated Mac system
> > and I quickly found a version of Firefox that would click through.
> > Since then (gmail's still officially in beta testing) they've I think
> > made a way through with POP3 and a more skeletal HTML version of their
> > webmail. Give it a try, hardly even what you'd call a form to fill
> > out.
>
> If Gmail is to support POP3, where will they put the targeted adverts?
> Will they insert them directly into your e-mail?
>
> BTW, given the distaste Keith has shown in the past over store "loyalty
> cards" and the profiling that goes with them, I doubt he'd be
> comfortable using a service with serious privacy concerns like
> Gmail. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
> --
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>


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