[74019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Sun Sep 12 02:29:37 2004
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040911232733.06cc5ec0@mail.amaranth.net>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:28:59 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Daniel Senie wrote:
> And here I thought I was the only one to seriously consider blocking
> gmail (to and from) because of the security implications.
Hope you are blocking every non-personal mail server on the planet.
I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server
- for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server. For those
who can't, public mail servers are all "scary". Gmail is no more scary
than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other
mail systems on the 'Net.
Put another way, how many of you have mailboxes on your personal server
for friends and family without the clue / time / motivation to run
their own mail server? Should we all block you because you can read /
store / sort / examine / virus check their mail?
People like it when someone else takes care of the back-end details.
And if someone else is doing that, then someone else can read their
personal stuff. Period, end of discussion.
Deal with it. Or cut yourself off from e-mail. Your e-mail, your
decision.
Just please stop complaining to the rest of us how scared you are that
some mail admin on the other end of a port 25 connection might read
something you sent to one of their users. It's so... 1970s.
--
TTFN,
patrick
