[Cialug] Mailling List Admin

[Tim Wilson]

You bring up a good point, however that doesn't fix the perception that I've
read about.  I agree with you, but there are people that think that since
Google is scanning e-mail, that itself is an invasion of privacy because
they are "looking" at your e-mail.  For some people, it boils down to do you
trust Google when you KNOW they're scanning e-mail, or do you trust your ISP
when you *think* they aren't?  Of course, it depends on the ISP.  I'm sure
my ISP isn't reading my e-mail, right Dave? :)

Judging by the "Going Google" topic, I'd say there are people who don't
trust Google, even in our educated group, so they will stay as far away from
GMail as they would from Hotmail.

Note, I do use GMail; 90% of my e-mail goes through GMail, or Google for my
domain.  But I do recognize that there are those who would rather die than
trust "those bastards at Google" just because Google scans e-mails.  Again,
that's their perception, even though as you point out, there's probably
layers of security keeping someone from personally reading your e-mail.  At
least, e-mail stored on their servers.  As the e-mail flows across the
internet, that is another issue.


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
> wrote:
> > There is the perception that there is less of a "big brother" factor with
> an
> > ISP.
>
> Wow.  I would so totally perceive just the opposite, myself.  I trust
> Google or Yahoo! or even Microsoft (though not far) to have layers of
> big company security and protocol in place to prevent any sort of
> intrusion or invasion of privacy.  I do not trust my local ISP's
> admin, who by the way is tasked with doing a lot more and therefore
> has a lot more power, to never take a peek.
>
> But anyway, the last time I looked at my ISPs email option, they were
> just rebranding Yahoo!, so it was a moot point.
>
> --
> Todd
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