[74025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Sun Sep 12 11:09:35 2004
In-Reply-To: <41443B72.1030302@deaddrop.org>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:08:57 -0400
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sep 12, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>> Maybe those of you who created accounts using the links provided by
>> todd
>> could 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
