Comments on: Gmail: email Gspot or Gmen?

By: Revenant

Revenant — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:05:53 +0000

Just had a thought re. the ads… I never see any Google ads any more due to the Adblock extension I use in Firefox. If Gmail displays ads in a similar way, there would be no downside to using it… ;)

By: Burt Wood

Burt Wood — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:16:08 +0000

Hey, I can’t wait till Gmail is avaiable1 All that storage space and a seach engine to find what i want. sensational! Of course, ‘ll use myregular email to send istuuf out -and give anyone I really want to contact me privately a secure adress, but let them read all the rest and I prove to be as good at ignoring any of their adds as I am will the millions of others I ignore on the web, Tv, newspapers, phone call, etc,

By: Master

Master — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:08:00 +0000

Yes, and its too bad the technology wasn’t available for Slick Willie Clinton so that he could have busted BinLaden and his cronies. And Hillary “Douchebag” Clinton could have used it to find some more people to have Billy pardon on his last day.

By: She Devil

She Devil — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:42:41 +0000

For those of you interested, I just posted my first impressions of my Gmail account here: http://www.slamaspammer.com/blog/?postid=10

She Devil

By: Teju

Teju — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:39:21 +0000

What the Heck….. Does it need to be discussed at all? Use it only if you want to. If you dont want the 1GB space, someone else is always to have it for you….

Simple aint it?

By: eamon

eamon — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:38:39 +0000

don’t be a git.
Google is offering a free service. To subsidise that, they add ad-content to your email. No more or less than yahoo or hotmail do currently. The only difference being they add “targeted” content. If you have a problem with this, don’t use it. It’s as simple as that. As far as the USPS goes, they are a government service, thus we have a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” Google is not, nor does it claim to be, a government service of any sort. They are a free-enterprise corporate entity out to make money. In order to do so, they think “outside the box” and provide services that are truly useful. So, again, I say, don’t use it. It won’t hurt you at all.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:42:37 +0000

How do you think that Yahoo and Hotmail spam blockers work? They just guess that an email is spam, and trash it for you? No! The computer reads the mail and uses some heuristics to flag it as good or spam. What Google plans to do is hardly different, they just use the flag to show a particular ad instead of (or inclusive to) mark it as spam. I really don’t understand why some groups are so worked up about this.

By: G

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:48:21 +0000

To me, this is no different than an ISP blocking potential spam. Still has to read your email looking for patterns. Same thing.

Google could say every fifth email is published on our server; that’s fine, it is their server and the cost is free.

Just my $.02.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:37:38 +0000

I am right in there. This e-mail address does not have to be published, just use it for storage. My e-mail client is full of saved e-mail and I just can’t wait to forward all the keepers, mostly newsletters that thousands of actual humans have read right along with me.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:37:08 +0000

No one have ever said that email was like snail mail sealed in an envelope. More like a postcard- and we all know that no one ever reads other peoples postcards…

Every email service that scans for viri already is doing what Google plans to do- Google is simply “relating” ads to the content.

As others have said, it it is that private, I’ll encrypt it.