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

alelist alelist at christopherrussell.net
Fri Sep 3 16:52:17 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 15:46, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 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.

Do you sell the results of your analysis to a third party?

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