OT - 3 Free Gmail invites

Thu Aug 19 18:07:12 UTC 2004

I'm not sure if it's even worth responding to you, but here I go 
anyway....

All mail servers scan your email when you send to one of their users.  
Mine scanned your below message several times in a row - first to look 
for certain headers that I don't want coming through (like that subject 
prefix that adult-oriented sites are required to use, for example), 
then again to look words in the body that I don't want to come through 
(for various things, from links to sites that could harm my users, to 
signatures of specific viruses, to stuff about mortgages that nobody 
should be using their work email to take care of), then again to see if 
the message was addressed to the postmaster (at which point all other 
rules are stopped and the message goes straight to the postmaster 
account), then again to check for attachments and add headers for 
certain kinds, then again to check those headers and block certain 
kinds of attachments, then again to check for viruses, 
etc...etc...etc...

Given that all of the above is standard mail procedure (maybe not at an 
ISP, but certainly at a corporation with specific strict usage 
policies, and even at an ISP many of the above are standard) I hope you 
can understand how pathetic your argument is.

--
Jeff Wheeler
Postmaster, Network Admin
US Institute of Peace

On Aug 19, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Lou Katz wrote:

>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:13:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
>>
>> Joshua Brady wrote:
>>
>>> I've got 2 Gmail invites up for grabs for the first 2 to email me 
>>> offlist.
>>>
>>
>> You know, I'm having trouble finding people that *don't* have 
>> gmail.com
>> accounts already. :P
>
> Because G-mail scans INCOMING mail without the sender's consent, we 
> will NEVER
> have a G-mail account and have considered blocking them. We actively 
> discourage
> our clients from using this service. If you want to let a service scan 
> YOUR mail,
> it is your perogative, but you cannot give them permission to scan MY 
> mail to you.
>
> YMMV.
>
>>
>> -Jonathan "G-mail-less" Nichols
>
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