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?