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Re: 30 Gmail Invites
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:08:57 -0400
On Sep 12, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Maybe those of you who created accounts using the links provided by toddcould post some invites.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! No more Gmail on NANOG!
Before anyone does such a moronic thing, please note that all people subscribed here, or reading the archives, now and for the future have access to the accounts from those links publicly posted. The privacy concerns noted by some are actually unique to gmail, and are real (for example, anyone accepting one of those is then known to the original poster). In addition, you will be joining the crowd of people that have demonstrated a genuine lack of regard for the charter of nanog, or its core audience.
I think you are confused.So someone who invited you to Gmail now knows you have a Gmail account. BFD. This creates exactly _zero_ privacy concerns. (Someone knowing your Gmail account is not a privacy concern as you knew going in they would know your account.)
Your privacy concerns are either nonexistent, or they apply to any non-personally-run mail server. (And probably many personally run mail servers.)
I repeat, if you have issues with Gmail, block Gamil on your own mail server and quit bothering the rest of us.
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites, (continued)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 11)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Daniel Senie (Sep 11)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Patrick W Gilmore (Sep 11)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Nicholas Suan (Sep 12)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Michael . Dillon (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Petri Helenius (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Curtis Maurand (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Richard Cox (Sep 13)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Etaoin Shrdlu (Sep 12)
- Re: 30 Gmail Invites Patrick W Gilmore (Sep 12)
- Untrustworthy Internet providers Sean Donelan (Sep 12)
- Ivan and outages Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Sep 12)
- Re: Ivan and outages Alex Rubenstein (Sep 12)