OT: gmail for SEIV people

[brianeyci]

I need another e-mail account... my university e-mail I want to keep secret from now on, and I don't really want to keep using my hotmail e-mail which has a part of my old high school in it lol.

I'll pay you back somehow... maybe join in a game you need a replacement player in... brianeyci@hotmail.com =D

Brian

[Captain Kwok]

You went to East York C.I.? Ha.

[Fyron]

I have 6 new invites. Who wants one? Send me a private message with the email address you would like me to send the invitation to.

[Timstone]

Don't call me stupid, but what the heck is GMail?

[dogscoff]

I assume you've all read this:
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

[Timstone]

Dogscoff:
You're right... at first glance, it really gives me the creeps. Don't throw away anything. This really smells like abuse of privacy.

Alneyan:
Thanks for the link.

Everybody:
Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass.

[Will]

I've read it. I've also read this. There are just some things that, while the arguement looks sound, the conclusions are completely bunk.

For one, their arguements about government access to email through subpoena applies to ALL e-mail services. Even if you run your own. The only difference with running your own is you get to know about the subpoena under PATRIOT, since you're also the administrator. As for other countries, if Zimbabwe decides to take control of some google servers in that country, sure, they might have access to some of my email. They'll also have royally pissed off a lot of people. And if the Zimbabwe government tried to just access *my* email (for whatever reason), you don't think Google would raise a stink about that globally?
Then there's the small arguement about tracking cookie which can be deleted at any time, nullifying the value google would get from it. And then a rant on the supposed evil-ness of Ad-words, when it's well known that advertisers just pay to have their ad show up on pages where certain words come up. Yes, that means "law" will bring up ads for law firms, even competing ones, and "perscription" will bring up drug importers, even in an article criticizing those importers. Amazing how a paranoid article can be seeming to call for an omniscient AI to serve up all our ads...

Anyway, I just had to vent on the tin-foil hat brigade for a while. I was only offering the gmail accounts, that doesn't mean y'all have to take them (invites are used up for now anyways). Who knows, I could be wrong, and now the NSA knows I'm a progressive leaning college student with interests in science, computers, philosophy, and music. I'm so scared

[Timstone]

Okay, sorry if I offended you.
So this whole thing is just one big advertising campaign to lure people to hotmail. I can live with that, why not take advantage of it? But I don't need that much room (1Gb , that is a lot for just a e-mail account). I can't imagine they can offer that much space without any alternative motive (what, paranoid? Me?).

I shall alter my answer to: "Thank you very much for the offer, but I don't need it."
My apologies for making you a bit irritated.

[Fyron]

dogscoff said:
I assume you've all read this:
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

Where can I get me one of those tinfoil Gmail hats? They sure look nice. As already stated, the paranoia applies to any email provider... Gmail is nothing unique. Yahoo is now giving out 2 GBs of storage space for paid members and 100 MB for free members. Hotmail is supposed to be increasing their storage space, but I have not seen that happen yet...

[Alneyan]

It is a sort of mail provided by Google. The site is available here.