[Alpine-info] Strange behaviour in deleting from Gmail

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:43:04PM -0800, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

> > Note that I did not mention the data mining of your private data.  This is so

> > obviously evil that it should go without saying.  

> 

> It's not "obviously evil".  That's (obviously) your opinion.

> 

> Just like TV shows have commercials(*) which pay for the programming, Google

> is providing the user a service in exchange for data mining the email.

> If one doesn't like it, then don't use it.  


The problem with that is that it's not only the users of the service
that get their communications collected and mined. 

-- 
Bob Holtzman
Key ID: 8D549279
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"
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