Re: 30 Gmail Invites

[Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>]

On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Daniel Senie wrote:

> And here I thought I was the only one to seriously consider blocking 
> gmail (to and from) because of the security implications.

Hope you are blocking every non-personal mail server on the planet.

I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server 
- for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server.  For those 
who can't, public mail servers are all "scary".  Gmail is no more scary 
than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other 
mail systems on the 'Net.

Put another way, how many of you have mailboxes on your personal server 
for friends and family without the clue / time / motivation to run 
their own mail server?  Should we all block you because you can read / 
store / sort / examine / virus check their mail?

People like it when someone else takes care of the back-end details.  
And if someone else is doing that, then someone else can read their 
personal stuff.  Period, end of discussion.

Deal with it.  Or cut yourself off from e-mail.  Your e-mail, your 
decision.

Just please stop complaining to the rest of us how scared you are that 
some mail admin on the other end of a port 25 connection might read 
something you sent to one of their users.  It's so... 1970s.

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TTFN,
patrick