On 10 Apr 2014 at 14:24, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

>
> On 4/10/2014 2:21 PM, Knapp wrote:
>     As for Google I signed up with the understanding that I got free high
>     qualityservicesin exchange for letting them sell advertising that
>     would be target at me based on my email contents. They have done just
>     that and I am happy with the deal. You don't need to be and truly I
>     don't care if you are or not but I am a bit curios about the bases
>     for your strong feelings about this subject.
>
> I don't like how creepy Google has gotten over the years and how it
> feels entitled to all my information. Beyond that, I have ethical
> issues with how it operates. Let's leave it at that.

I pretty much am stuck with using gmail to send emails, as my hosting
service doesn't (currently) support SMTP.

But I started nagging them about the time that I noticed that on the
rare occasions I had to actuially use the web interface to gmail,
they wanted my cell phone number for the account.

Sorry, but I have multiple IDs for a *reason* and tying them to my
cell phone is *not* in any way an increase in *my* security.

At somre point I need to go in and figure out a way to download the
"sent mail" archive for each ID and then nuke the contents on
google's end.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com