philosophical question about gmail

[Sharpe, Richard]

Thanks for asking Bill I don't know either.

Richard A Sharpe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org 
> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Sconce
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 2:15 PM
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: philosophical question about gmail
> 
> This is going to hurt.  I'm going to have to admit ignorance, 
> not just of the usual sort, but in this case near-total ignorance.
> 
>             What is gmail?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:41:07 -0400
> "Kevin D. Clark" <clark_k at pannaway.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Some of the members of this list have not signed Gmail's user 
> > agreement (let's call this Group A).  Others have (let's 
> these people 
> > Group B).
> 
> Wait a minute.  The ignorance is not total.  I know one 
> thing.  I know that I'm in Group A.  I haven't signed 
> ANYONE's user agreement recently.
> (Actually, I haven't signed anyone's user agreement for at 
> least several years now, not since I converted to Linux.)
> 
>  
> > It takes some amount of effort to belong to this group.  Why should 
> > the efforts of Group A be available to Gmail (in the form 
> of raw data, 
> > marketing data, and potential advertising revenues) simply because 
> > Group B decided to sign Gmail's user agreement?
> 
> That sounds like a good question.
> 
>  
> > Just wondering.  I haven't made up my mind yet about Gmail.
> 
> OK.  I'm wondering too.
> 
> (I did a search of gnhlug, found "gmail" in the subject of 
> only two messages, this one from Kevin and the one where Jeff 
> says he's run out of friends.  Some of us probably don't know 
> what a "gmail invitation" is either.)
> 
> -Bill
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