[74018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sun Sep 12 00:13:14 2004
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:12:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From owner-nanog@merit.edu Sat Sep 11 21:58:47 2004
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
> To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: 30 Gmail Invites
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400
>
>
> 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
>
>
> From owner-nanog@merit.edu Sat Sep 11 21:58:47 2004
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
> To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: 30 Gmail Invites
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400
>
>
> 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.)
While we're on _that_ subject, what about Postini, or Brightmail, or -any-
other big provider (e.g. SBC/Yahoo) that handles mail for multiple 'client'
domains?
Every one of those folks also reads and analyzes everybody's incoming mail,
including correlating it with mail sent to other destination on their systems.
AND correlating source (IP address and/or email address) with content.
