[ale] What's so special about gmail invites?

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Robert Reese wrote:

> GMail has not bothered to warn those people that send email to GMail users
> that their inbound email is subject to analysis, especially since this
> analysis is for advertising.  Nor are the recipients of email from GMail
> users notified of this fact.  You see, the GMail user has taken the liberty
> of agreeing to a privacy policy for both themselves and their recipients
> and sendees.

The tiny little point you're missing is that all this is true of email,
period.  s/Gmail/email/g on your rant. If you send me email, I can analyze
it however I want (and make no mistake; I, or my employers, or my providers,
do analyze it. The details of what and how depend upon which address of mine
you use, but I'll bet at least some of them you wouldn't like ;-).  If I
send you email, you can analyze it however you want. There's nothing
remotely unusual about gmail in this regard, other than that they (unlike 
me) actually publish a cursory summary of what analysis they do.

later,
chris