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Comment from sirpaul1 on 2009-09-09

2009-09-09T07:40:25Z

Just like Vegas! What goes into the internet, stays in the internet.

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Comment from John MuwwEy on 2009-09-08

2009-09-09T04:26:29Z

I've done something, without knowing the result, that unexpectedly proved to be a SPAM "avoider"

I've given myself an email address name with more than 2 of the same letters:
e.g.: jjjjohnnn@wherever.com

IT REALLLLY WORKS

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Comment from Ming on 2009-09-08

2009-09-08T16:00:47Z

"Law enforcement people believe only criminals need to hide what their doing, so it may draw more unwanted attention therefore making you more interesting".

An interesting observation. When was the last time to you had access to police, FBI, and CIA communications?

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Comment from Menagerie on 2009-09-08

2009-09-08T15:52:59Z

Why not just turn the banners off? Several free software packages do this?

That may stop the ads from appearing, but it doesn't neccessarily address the question: it probably doesn't stop your email from being "read".

09-Sep-2009

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Comment from Bill on 2009-09-08

2009-09-08T15:41:15Z

PGP is not similar to putting a letter into an envelope, then it would be about as easy to read as a normal email.

Unless someone is into things like corporate secrets, drug deals or murder for hire, it is a lot of overkill.
More like a courier with a briefcase handcuffed to their wrists, with the combination only known to the receiver, and dye packs that are triggered if the briefcase is opened by anyone else.

If any "friend" starts sending me any normal email with PGP encription, it will be headed to the trash can immediately.
I don't need the nonsense.

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Comment from Chris on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T17:54:36Z

A computer reading your email is not the same as a human being. This practice has been used for YEARS to filter out spam. Now, in conjunction to spam filtering, it is used to scan for relative ads (something you might be interested in, instead of total junk).

Most people think their email is never seen by anyone but the one person who has access to your inbox (you), but you are 100% incorrect. Your email is not sent from the sender directly to your computer. It is sent to a server or through a series of servers that belong to your email provider where it is stored until you access it.

It is STORED --- I believe if it is sitting there anyway, on a machine, doing nothing, there should be no treat having that same machine scan your email for keyword/phrases to better help your email experience. It is sitting on a machine anyway, in which whos eyes are not being seen through. To it, your email is simply a series of 1's and 0's (just as long as it's programming doesnt surpass that and begins logging/flagging nonspammer email addresses).

When/if gmail begins targeted/scanning of email for governmental purposes or to filter out specific people (where then your rights are being violated), would I be worried.

As much as I hate conspiracies and as many of those movies as seen in theaters and TV, it could be very possible for this kind of partnership (between search engines and email services such as google and yahoo with the government), but I believe (call me stupid) that politics and our mere rights as Americans would stop any such actions way before they start.

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Comment from Tarek aman banna on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T08:34:53Z

I belive that yahoo never read my email at a sense.because they delivery any type of message if its would be a message of Al kaiya or Osama bin laden or any rich or high message

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Comment from Mark J on 2009-09-02

2009-09-02T20:46:43Z

As Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP (encryption tor the masses), said and I paraphrase: Email is like a postcard anybody can read it. Put your mail in an envelope, ie encrypt it.

Encryption has its downside. Law enforcement people believe only criminals need to hide what their doing, so it may draw more unwanted attention therefore making you more interesting.

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