Re: 30 Gmail Invites

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <g38ybgi5nd.fsf () sa vix com>, Paul Vixie writes:
> i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not.
>
> not just "anyone on nanog".  anyone, anywhere, ever.  the reasons "why not"
> are compelling enough.  but there are no counterbalancing reasons "why to",
> either compelling or otherwise.

I agree.  The privacy implications are *really* scary.  (And they're 
sufficiently worse for non-subscribers that I've contemplated blocking 
gmail-bound messages from my (personal) systems.)

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb