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DigiNut
You kids get off my lawn!
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
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To Steve and Iliya:
I assure you that after having worked in the IT business for five years that I know exactly how SMTP works.
SMTP servers route millions of messages every second of the day, half of them spam. Sure, an administrator could pick out a random message and read it, but who would want to? ISPs with thousands of users aren't like school networks where only a handful of messages pass through. And even if they did pick out random messages to read, the chance of one of them being mine is pretty low.
Okay, so technically if an administrator knew who I was and wanted to scan my *incoming* e-mail. He could set up a bot on the server to scan every single mail going through the SMTP for my address. Getting a little far-fetched here, but maybe it's possible. What then is he going to do with it, other than read the pathetic details of my insignificant life? Sign me up for spam? Write threatening letters to me?
Gmail, on the other hand, is set up expressly to enable scanning your e-mail for profiling purposes. Both your outgoing and incoming e-mail are linked and scanned by google's all-purpose bot that's already had years of experience in the profiling and marketing department. We're not talking about a lone admin having some fun reading private e-mail, we're talking about an entire distributed artificial intelligence network dedicated solely to the task of reading your private e-mail. There's a slight difference here.
What, did you think Google just felt like offering a ton of free high-quality e-mail? They have to make money off of this somehow, and believe me, they'll be making a ton. Google doesn't play games here.
As for that article on google-watch-watch, it was mainly an ad-hominem attack on the person who did google-watch. While nothing I've posted in this thread actually comes from or was inspired by google-watch, I still have to wonder exactly how that diatribe disproves anything on GW. I'm going to go with the "it doesn't" answer.
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My party schedule:
2009-02-21 - DJ Attention @ I'm So Popular
2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
2048-06-66 - Spastic & Whocares ¶ Although I'm Actually Flattered
9999-45-81 - Tweaker Gimp ☼ I Probably Won't Even Go To This But I Have To Make Sure I Fill Up All The Available Space Here
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 Jun-25-2004 23:11 
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malek
drinks your milkshake!
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Montréal
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| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
To Steve and Iliya:
I assure you that after having worked in the IT business for five years that I know exactly how SMTP works.
SMTP servers route millions of messages every second of the day, half of them spam. Sure, an administrator could pick out a random message and read it, but who would want to? ISPs with thousands of users aren't like school networks where only a handful of messages pass through. And even if they did pick out random messages to read, the chance of one of them being mine is pretty low.
Okay, so technically if an administrator knew who I was and wanted to scan my *incoming* e-mail. He could set up a bot on the server to scan every single mail going through the SMTP for my address. Getting a little far-fetched here, but maybe it's possible. What then is he going to do with it, other than read the pathetic details of my insignificant life? Sign me up for spam? Write threatening letters to me?
Gmail, on the other hand, is set up expressly to enable scanning your e-mail for profiling purposes. Both your outgoing and incoming e-mail are linked and scanned by google's all-purpose bot that's already had years of experience in the profiling and marketing department. We're not talking about a lone admin having some fun reading private e-mail, we're talking about an entire distributed artificial intelligence network dedicated solely to the task of reading your private e-mail. There's a slight difference here.
What, did you think Google just felt like offering a ton of free high-quality e-mail? They have to make money off of this somehow, and believe me, they'll be making a ton. Google doesn't play games here.
As for that article on google-watch-watch, it was mainly an ad-hominem attack on the person who did google-watch. While nothing I've posted in this thread actually comes from or was inspired by google-watch, I still have to wonder exactly how that diatribe disproves anything on GW. I'm going to go with the "it doesn't" answer. |
its people like you that I am affraid from...
“When you have the power to get information, it is very hard to impose any arbitrary barriers for their acquisitions. (…) Can we refuse ourselves to read them?” -Zbigniew Brzezinski
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