[governance] Fwd: [IP] Google's Gmail Keyword Scanning Might Violate Wiretap Law, Judge Finds

[Avri Doria]

my gmail address is on only one of the more than 10 email address I have.

some i pay for, some i don't. 

avri


On 28 Sep 2013, at 18:52, McTim wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think a lot of people are rather more anxious now than previously with the
>> "deal" that they signed up for with Gmail but the problem is to find
>> workable alternatives... Given their resources and monopolistic behanviour
>> (predatory pricing?) Gmail seem to have pushed most of the possible
>> althernative services out of the market (at least for the moment...
> 
> 
> nonsense.  I Googled "free email", and got 10 alternatives on the
> first page alone...with Gmail coming in at #8 on the list.
> 
> 
> Googling for "leading free email service" gives this result:
> 
> http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm
> 
> in which Gmail is listed as #1, this means that people like the
> service, not that there are no other options.
> 
> Monopoly is defined on Wikipedia as:
> 
> "A monopoly (from Greek monos μόνος (alone or single) + polein πωλεῖν
> (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only
> supplier of a particular commodity"
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
> 
> This is not the case with any service from Google that I can think of.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
> 
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