JohnH wrote:
Went to get some info on Gmail and came across the following thread in the
Gmail discussion group at Yahoo:

http://tinyurl.com/hofoe

Definitely gives me second thoughts about subscribing. I think I'll just
stick with Cox and Yahoo.

I also came across this line in the info section on Gmail:

"There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail, only small text
ads. Ads and related information are relevant to your messages, so instead
of being obtrusive, they may even be useful for once."

In order to target the 'ads and related information' it would seem as
though something is paying more attention to messages than I would desire.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about.html

Any thoughts?


I have no issues with them so long as they declare upfront what the
price of the free service is. The mail gets machine scanned for key
words & the side ads are targeted accordingly??

Most mail is pretty innocuous, family, friends etc however I don't think
I'd conduct actual "business" via gmail, although spoofed addresses etc
are a risk on other mail systems also.

If it really is an issue; then ask for your money back & don't use it

They do offer a safe repository for my stuff once it's in an attached
zipped tarball.

Google are about the only ones at least trying to offer alternatives to
MS based stuff so I support them.

K