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okay i think this has gone on long enough, if you guys want to discuse the privacy issue of gmail can you please start a new thread, it has being intresting, but i feel its about to get into a flame war.

thanks
 

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ben.carbonaro said:
I got an invite from a mate for gmail, signed up today.

How come it's by invite only where did everyone get thier invites from initially ?
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i got my original invite from a mate as well, not sure who he got it off. I belive originally they had people sign up for beta testers, then they let the beta testers give out the invites.

Its still invites probably because it is still in testing phase, they are probably giving out invites to test additional server load.
 
Milne said:
I've got 4 invites available
Reply here, then PM me. 1 per person of course
and some reputation in exchange might be nice *whistles innocently*
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One my way would be appreciated milne :)
 
gPhonque said:
What a silly attitude that is!

Besides, if an email provider says that it won't access peoples emails (let alone scan the text and save data for an indefinite amount of time!) and then does anyway, then that would be a serious abuse of customer privacy. Whether it's done by an individual or the company itself.

There is no difference between Google scanning the text of emails and storing the data for their own purposes, and Australia Post opening peoples letters, making photocopies of them, and then storing them away for their own purposes. And yet I'm quite sure people would never approve of that.

But hey, if you want to use Gmail and condone such practices, then who am I to stop you?
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I take it you haven't bothered reading the gmail terms and conditions and have just jumped on whatever outrage-fest wagon is rolling. Such abuse as you've outlined is not permitted via their terms and conditions.

What you conveniently fail to see in your hysterical thrashing is that all the email providers can abuse their customers in exactly the same way. But you dismiss that possibility with a flippant attitude of 'the other providers wouldn't do that!'

Whether you take up gmail or not should be based upon what you want from the service, not some rant of illinformed luddites. For me I like it's fast interface and the fact that it has a nine month period on non-use before account inactivation. But it'll never be my main day-to day email account, because it's not a pop3 and I like to store my emails on my PC.
 

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Jim Boy said:
I take it you haven't bothered reading the gmail terms and conditions and have just jumped on whatever outrage-fest wagon is rolling. Such abuse as you've outlined is not permitted via their terms and conditions.

What you conveniently fail to see in your hysterical thrashing is that all the email providers can abuse their customers in exactly the same way. But you dismiss that possibility with a flippant attitude of 'the other providers wouldn't do that!'

Whether you take up gmail or not should be based upon what you want from the service, not some rant of illinformed luddites. For me I like it's fast interface and the fact that it has a nine month period on non-use before account inactivation. But it'll never be my main day-to day email account, because it's not a pop3 and I like to store my emails on my PC.
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At the end of the day, you can say there's nothing wrong with the huge potential for abuse that Gmail provides, but 31 Civil Liberties groups around the world (including Australia) obviously believe differently to you, as do I and many others.

This only opens the door to more similar, and eventually worse and more blatant, abuses of privacy.

Perhaps you should actually read the website I mentioned and you may start to think differently. If you already have and still disagree, then I gather you don't particularly care about such issues, which is kind of sad really. (woohoo! I get a whole gig of space!)

I love the way Google have made it all "invite only" as well. They've essentially tricked people into skipping the step where you ask yourself "why do I need a Gmail account?" and people are scrambling left right and centre to get themselves one of the precious "invites."

Also interesting to note that Sergey Brin's (co-founder of Google) main interest at grad school was supposedly "data mining."

He's a clever boy.
 

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