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Re: 30 Gmail Invites

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Sat Sep 11 22:58:10 2004 
In message <g38ybgi5nd.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx>, 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