On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:53:26 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:16:54 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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I've had Google for a while, and I haven't experianced any of those
types of problems. I can pretty well detect SPAM seeing that I don't
really get much mail from there anyhow. . and if I saw that I sent
one
to myself, I wouldn't open it . I'd junk it.


You've had Google WHAT? Which product are you referring to?



pardon me, "G-mail"



Well, I think it's odd that a for-profit company uses the content of your
email to generate income. All email is potentially subject to
surveillance,
but Google's routine is odd, to say the least. I wonder how many people
don't even notice.


That was the point of my original post. I agree with all the folks that
say
email is subject to being intercepted, read, etc. But, I don't know of any
email providers who scan every message looking for key words which will be
used for targeted advertising (or for anything else the company wishes).

Thanks, but no thanks.
--
John H

The whole thing makes me wonder why we ever did away with the pillory and
rotten vegetables as a form of public punishment.

While living on the farm, as kids, my brothers and I would walk up to the
Nesbitts farm. For some reason, many of their chickens would lay eggs in
the hayloft of their huge barn. The eggs would get abandoned (or the
chickens eaten 'cause they weren't laying eggs in the hen house) and we'd
find nests with a dozen or so eggs therein. Mind you, these eggs were
rotten, for the most part.

We would then use the eggs for an egg fight in the barn. Rotten vegetables
wouldn't hold a candle to rotten eggs when it comes to throwing things at
those in a pillory. I think we should do it for lane changers on I-95!
--
John H

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