I'm one of the small minority of people who have a very negative opinion about gmail. I realise I'm a bit of a kook on this subject and I'd ideally I'd like to avoid having an enormous flamewar about it.
However, it has come to my attention that at least one developer appears to be reading debian-private at their gmail account. I think that this is a violation of the privacy rules surrounding the debian-private list. Google should not get a copy of debian-private, even if the only current output is aggregate keyword hit reports (ie ad presentation rate data). Note that this applies to _any_ email provider with similar privacy and processing concerns. I have no idea whether other webmail providers' privacy practices are (nowadays) as bad from my personal point of view, or as conflicting with the debian-private policy, as Gmail's. But it seems clear that Gmail's processing isn't compatible with debian-private. A Debian developer should cause debian-private to be processed only as is necessary for providing developers with good and convenient access to the mailing list. They should not cause debian-private to be distributed to computers whose owners and operators cannot be expected to refrain from processing the content in other ways. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
