On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > People hold grudges against MS too strongly, and they believe too much > in Google's righteousness. They are both big companies that don't > necessarily care about you.
Just to clarify, I'm not advocating the "Google is perfect" stance either; in both cases you're looking at a huge company and a zero-dollar service. That means you're completely at their mercy in terms of feature support, and you're most likely going to have your information harvested as a means of spamming you with ads. And as you can see from the headers, I use gmail too. I'm fully aware that they're scanning my emails to target the ads I see; it doesn't bother me. I have another email address at a domain that I own, with the mail server being an actual computer that I own, and Google's welcome to read through all my mailing list posts. It'd be no different if python.org provided their own free-to-use webmail service. I'd be assuming you guys are targeting me with ads, and it wouldn't bother me. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
