[74016] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sat Sep 11 22:56:06 2004
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Sep 2004 02:26:46 -0000."
<g38ybgi5nd.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
