Email Scanning (was OT - 3 Free Gmail invites)

[Brett <bretton () gmail com>]

Now, this is on topic.  The email scanning that is done by Gmail is
the same that is done by spam filtering and virus scanning.  Do you
actively discourage your clients to not use anti-virus or anti-spam
software?

All free email services profit from advertising, or they would not
exist.  Other services, such as Yahoo and Hotmail both serve ads from
external domains, which gives them access to referer information and
anything else passed in ad requests or Iframes.  More information
about the user is divulged and is a greater privacy concern.  In
Gmail, ads are served directly from Google, and no personal
information is divulged to the advertiser.

So, what are the technical reasons you discourage people from using Gmail?


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:39:43 -0700, Lou Katz <lou () metron com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:13:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > Joshua Brady wrote:
> >
> > > I've got 2 Gmail invites up for grabs for the first 2 to email me offlist.
> >
> > You know, I'm having trouble finding people that *don't* have gmail.com
> > accounts already. :P
>
> Because G-mail scans INCOMING mail without the sender's consent, we will NEVER
> have a G-mail account and have considered blocking them. We actively discourage
> our clients from using this service. If you want to let a service scan YOUR mail,
> it is your perogative, but you cannot give them permission to scan MY mail to you.
>
> YMMV.
>
> > -Jonathan "G-mail-less" Nichols
>
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> -=[L]=-