Fwd: philosophical question about gmail

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:07:22 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
<snip>
> I suspect that at least one of us has missed a point; I was
> only worried that if (say) you were a gmail user and the
> gmail folks felt free to append an ad to end of all your
> outbound emails then anything you posted to the GNHLUG
> list would contain an ad, thereby shoving that ad into
> all our faces even though the rest of us were NOT gmail
> users and had not consented to view those ads.  The gmail
> folks would benefit because their ads would be in front
> of a whole set of "eyeballs" (I've heard that's how the ad
> geeks think of us) without us getting anything in return.
>

Only gmail users see the ad. For instance, for this thread I see ads
for email marketing off to the far right.
 
<snip>

> BTW, where's the Linux connection in all of this?
> maybe this thread oughta be taking place on a different
> GNHLUG channel...
> 

philosophical questions outside the scope of Linux but related to tech
seem fine to me for gnhlug.

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA