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| Ortemy |
| Ilya, just tell me, when the hell will I have an email ortemy at google dot com ????? ; )))) |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by abort416
i have read
http://news.com.com/Hotmail+giving+...ml?tag=nefd.top that hotmail and other major email providers such as yahoo and lycos are blocking google gmail invites so if you want to get invited by someone
DONT HAVE THE INVITE SENT TO A HOTMAIL ACCOUNT AS IT WILL BE A WASTE
which reminds me i need to set up an account with rogers email so that hopefully one of my friendly (network) neighbourhood tranceaddicts with a gmail invite might invite me to get an address! PLEASE! (right now i solely use my hotmail account and im sick of it!) |
i got one through hotmail, no probs. |
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| TECHno addict |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
i got one through hotmail, no probs. |
Me too. |
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| AwakenedAddict |
Haha, i scored "[email protected]" yesterday :)
If anyone needs an invite i just got a fresh account, so i should have some (i need to check it out first). Anyhow first "x" to PM me can have my invites (x= # of invites i have)
-+Aron |
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| abort416 |
well then i guess i stand corrected! send all the gmail invites ya want to hotmail addys i guess
pmed you AwakenedAddict hope i was quick enough! |
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| 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. |
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| Durafei |
| quote: | | Gmail, on the other hand, is set up expressly to enable scanning your e-mail for profiling purposes. |
Please support this statement with a proof, specifically "profiling purposes". |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
| i got an invite from someone recently..not sure if hes a TA....anyways...spent a whole weekend or more trying ot think of what prefix to get...dinally i just stuck to...well u guessed it...elkaydee:stongue: |
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| redrum |
| just got gmail a few weeks ago... very nice :) |
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| malek |
| 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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| failsafe |
well if any of you run out of gmail invite people you can fire me an invite! pilot_graeme_brown(at)hotmail.com
please please please?! |
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| TrueToTheCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Durafei
you must encrypt all your messages. |
Get a BlackBerry
www.blackberry.com |
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