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Published on April 8, 2005 By Mithun Pal In Internet
For a G-Mail account send an email at hcp006slATgmailDOTcom.

Otherwise, you can leave your massage here requesting for an account.

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on Nov 13, 2005
Invitations have been sent to both adn and matt.w. adn has already accepted my invitation.
But, don't know what matt.w is doing. If you don't have received it yet, please let me know.
If there is anyone who mailed me for an invitation and yet not receive any, please leave your massage here or mail me again. It is possible that you send a mail, but somehow I didn't get it.
on Nov 15, 2005

Invitation has been sent to Jarod Miles and he has accepted it.
If anyone still left, feel free to contact me at hcp006sl@gmail.com
on Nov 17, 2005

It's possible in G-Mail also. Just do the following method:
'Settings' ? 'Forwarding and POP' ? in 'POP Download:' section you will find an option 'When messages are accessed with POP' ? from the drop-down list select 'trash Gmail's copy' to delete after downloading massage ? click 'save changes'.

Please don't create a panic here. Here in the following screen shot you can easily see how many ads are there.

on Nov 17, 2005
According to your screenshots there are no ads. I know better as I have a gmail account. I see ads all the time. Even one ad is one too many. I still think Gmail invades users privacy by scanning emails even if it is for ads.
on Nov 17, 2005

Apprentice Himangshu  ...your last post mangled the site format.

Be very careful when you select things to 'quote'....

on Nov 17, 2005
your last post mangled the site format.

Be very careful when you select things to 'quote'.



Thank you Jafo. Thanks a lot. I've already noticed it and I was just going to contact with some admins here. But, now I find it OK. It was not the quote I used, it's probably the table I used for the screenshot. I knew some problem was there in the coding, but forgot to debug. Thanks for debugging.

on Nov 17, 2005
Gmail invades users privacy by scanning emails even if it is for ads.



In every standard e-mail severs there must be a scanning engine. Hotmail, Yahoo - every standard email server scans the incoming as well as out going mail for security. To project your mailbox from spam, scanning is a must.

on Nov 17, 2005
To project your mailbox from spam, scanning is a must


Yes, when it serves to protect the recipient from unwelcomed spam and viruses, etc.....NO, when scanning to place unwelcomed ads based on the content, it's unacceptable.
on Nov 18, 2005
To project your mailbox


Sorry, it should be 'protect' and not 'project'.

NO, when scanning to place unwelcomed ads based on the content, it's unacceptable.


Couldn't understand who is placing unwelcomed ads through scanning?
on Nov 18, 2005
In every standard e-mail severs there must be a scanning engine. Hotmail, Yahoo - every standard email server scans the incoming as well as out going mail for security.


Yep my ISP scans my email for malware and viruses not for content to base an ad on.

Couldn't understand who is placing unwelcomed ads through scanning?


Google is.
on Nov 18, 2005
Yep my ISP scans my email for malware and viruses not for content to base an ad on.


If there is any anti-virus only - I think no mail server (at least Hotmail) can depend on AVs only - the checking is only on attachments. But, if there is any spam guard - even at your PC - if working properly must have to scan the internal coding of any incoming and outgoing mail and to check it most trustable method in my opinion - is hex-dumping.
Because, it's the coding that can make a free Hotmail account HotPOP account without any charge. It's the extra coding of a picture that can tell the sender that the recipient is online. The small text files known as cookies contains a very few text, but could be enough harmful. Hex-dump the cookie to view the coding. So, in modern day computing when viruses are getting more and more intelligent, it's not enough to check the files attached; you have validate the incoming server, also verify whether what you get is what you see, i.e., the internal coding.
on Nov 18, 2005
Nevermind...
on Nov 18, 2005
Himangshu....no amount of explanation is going to persuade me to trust a company whose fortune is largely derived from advertising and annoying the crap out of people.
on Nov 18, 2005

Apprentice Himangshu ...Gmail scans your email content to target YOU with relevant advertising.  The scan has exactly NOTHING to do with viruses....and EVERYTHING to do with invasive advertising....to the point of a technical breach of your privacy [but of course you sign that away when you join].

If a 'thing' scans your email CONTENT for keywords to determine what advertising is relevant to YOU then your information content of your email is being intercepted by a party OTHER THAN the one to which it was addressed.

Anyone with half a brain can see that as intrusive...but most are blinded by the gigs of storage...and cliquish 'invites' that make this crap advertising venture look groovy.

Perhaps you're a Gmail employee....or are getting some kick-back for making them sound good....but they ain't.  It's a cheap but clever way of doing 'spam' without clogging your intray....

on Nov 18, 2005
Actually, G-Mail is now old hat! It is easy to get and no longer "Exclusive". It does work well though.

Interestingly, it is no longer possible to open a G-Mail account if you have a British address. Apparently, a company in England has copyright for the name in the UK. The address was used by this company for mail to its employees.
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