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mrlipring · 27-01-2005, 04:56

ermm. graham, your point there is about a security hole in google/froogle/gmail. Not about privacy (or lack of privacy) with gmail. There are numerous security holes in hotmail, yahoo, and the lot of them. PHPbb and Vbulletin are being patched all the time. OSes are patched all the time as well. This thread is about singling out Gmail. If there's something specifically about gmail's TOS or whatever, that doesn't apply to the others as well, then please let everyone know, but something like a security hole, that wasn't even a problem with gmail specifically, is clutching at straws.

gmail is still in beta. if you're not prepared to put up with some teething problems, you shouldn't be using it. If you have any particularly sensitive info, you shouldn't be using free email services, you should be using a service worthy of your data. They wouldn't offer compensation for data loss, and they don't have a service standards agreement.

As for your point about subscribing to which magazine (i'm not even going to start on that...), i know about problems that data storage can cause. I've worked in CS for years now, i've had all sorts of weird and wonderful problems/complaints/headaches.

Not all extended warranties are bad, look at richer sounds. Anyone stupid enough to get a dixons one (the buggers tried it with me a few weeks ago when i bought an iriver h340... Guy wouldn't take no for an answer. Had i not been in a hurry i'd have stuck about and kicked up a fuss) deserves fleecing, but there are decent warranty schemes out there.

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mrlipring Inactive Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glasgow Age: 44 Services: PCI DVB-T Freeview NTL Digital NTL 3mbit NTL phone Posts: 421	Re: Anti-Gmail warnings ermm. graham, your point there is about a security hole in google/froogle/gmail. Not about privacy (or lack of privacy) with gmail. There are numerous security holes in hotmail, yahoo, and the lot of them. PHPbb and Vbulletin are being patched all the time. OSes are patched all the time as well. This thread is about singling out Gmail. If there's something specifically about gmail's TOS or whatever, that doesn't apply to the others as well, then please let everyone know, but something like a security hole, that wasn't even a problem with gmail specifically, is clutching at straws. gmail is still in beta. if you're not prepared to put up with some teething problems, you shouldn't be using it. If you have any particularly sensitive info, you shouldn't be using free email services, you should be using a service worthy of your data. They wouldn't offer compensation for data loss, and they don't have a service standards agreement. As for your point about subscribing to which magazine (i'm not even going to start on that...), i know about problems that data storage can cause. I've worked in CS for years now, i've had all sorts of weird and wonderful problems/complaints/headaches. Not all extended warranties are bad, look at richer sounds. Anyone stupid enough to get a dixons one (the buggers tried it with me a few weeks ago when i bought an iriver h340... Guy wouldn't take no for an answer. Had i not been in a hurry i'd have stuck about and kicked up a fuss) deserves fleecing, but there are decent warranty schemes out there.