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[cheekbones3]

Everyone seems to be getting excited about that new e-mail service - is it only due to the invitation element of it? Yahoo mail gives me just as much storage, and ten meg attachment limit. I see no need to move to somewhere with such security and privacy concerns!

In other news - I've emerged unscathed from four quizzes in a row, with a slightly fatter wallet, and a rather thinner sleep surplus. This shall be put right - I will go into work whenever I wake up in the morning.

And so to bed.

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[bunnyphone.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've just been telling someone that email service sounds really dodgy, read an article about it last week.

Wise move on the sleep thing I'd say, there's no point wrecking yourself for the sake of work! You are getting on a bit after all:oP

[silverclear.livejournal.com]

The concerns about privacy seem to be largely caused by a lack of understanding of how Google works. The article that bunnyphone is talking about reads to me like scaremongering.

I'm interested in it because I'm curious about things that Google comes up with, how they work, why they're better. I've never used webmail either, so it's novel.

[hughe.livejournal.com]

ditto about the scaremongering.

the site shows you an advert that is most related to the content of your email. not a person, the site. a computer program. no human reads your emails.

this is what happens when you mix journalists and not very interesting developments.

most banner advert companies these days keep track of what sites you've been looking at that show their adverts, and use this to shows you adverts more relevent to you.

If any webmail provider wanted to read your emails they could. Hotmail even state in their terms and conditions that they are allowed to and that anything you send by email through them becomes the property of Microsoft.

same with aoltimewarner and probably the same with yahoo.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Feck yer, bint!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Any chance of an invite? *grin*