Gmail the easy way

[amalventano at sc.rr.com (Allyn)]

ok, check this out. hotmail, yahoo, and basically any other 'free' email 
service would be *just* as 'insecure' as gmail, if not more. this is because 
they work pretty much the same way. now if you want to get really worried, 
consider that your email passes through several relays, any of which can be 
archiving said email for who-knows-what purpose. the only real difference 
between gmail or your own isp mail is which servers the email happens to 
pass through on the way.

now, a side note, you can get a program which does a roundabout method of 
retrieving emial from a gmail account. the program is called 
pop-goes-the-gmail. it does the necessary conversion so you can setup your 
'usual' email reader to retrieve your gmail email. the cool thing about 
this: you can have it delete the emails from gmail after retrieval. no more 
worries about security risk of your emails sitting on googles servers 
forever, as they are deleted every time you check your mail (just like what 
happens when you get your 'usual' mail from your isp).

link to pptg: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=169789

hth
Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GGehrke" <NavySEAL2B@insightbb.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: RE: Gmail the easy way


> Does nobody else here think this Gmail thing is a bad idea in the first
> place?
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001375.php (interesting reading
> from the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Awww.eff.org+gmail
> (to catch up on further releases from EFF)
>
> I would consider using it as a junk account or maybe (not implying any
> similarity) as a place to receive mailing list subscriptions (for which
> the gmail searching features would quite helpful) - but I would never
> want to use this for any sort of personal communication.  I haven't kept
> up with the latest info on it since the launch, but as far as I know it
> really does still raise some very serious privacy concerns.
>
>
> -Grant-
> 1980 under construction
> Louisville, KY/Annapolis, MD
>
>
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