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Mithun Pal
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Reply #26 November 7, 2005 1:24:50 PM
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Sorry. Just don't like the idea tht they read your mail and when you delete an email google dosen't delete them rather they save them.
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Reply #27 November 7, 2005 1:48:16 PM
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Sorry. Just don't like the idea tht they read your mail and when you delete an email google dosen't delete them rather they save them.

 


Source please. Can’t understand what you said.

Once you delete a message, it's gone for good.

If you really need to delete a message, you can do so at any time. Here's how:

  1. First, move the message to 'Trash.' (You can still search for and retrieve messages in 'Trash.')
    Open a conversation. → Click 'Show options.' → Click 'Trash this message.'

  2. Then, select 'Delete Forever.' (You won't be able to recover a message after completing this step.)
    Click 'Trash' along the left side of any Gmail page. → Select the message. → Click 'Delete Forever.'
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Reply #28 November 7, 2005 5:11:01 PM
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Once you delete a message, it's gone for good.


Nope. Google saves everything even after you delete it. And thanks for the email lesson but I know how to use Gmail. Thanks.
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Reply #29 November 7, 2005 5:39:43 PM
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(You won't be able to recover a message after completing this step.)


I believe the key word is you.
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Reply #30 November 8, 2005 3:31:51 AM
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If anybody has an idea to extract all the invite URL's from Thunderbird, i'll give them a cookie
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Reply #31 November 8, 2005 1:45:59 PM
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Nope. Google saves everything even after you delete it.

 


Probably mistaken. Only a mad can do so. At least if I could be the owner of G-Mail, I would just tell you that sorry I don't have money to store your deleted massage. Because I can store those things for which I'm getting money. As G-Mail is ad-supported free mail, I must store all your valid mails and show you as you login. But, what would I earn storing the deleted one? This is just common sense.

Some news stories have suggested that Google intends to keep copies of users' email messages even after they've deleted them, or closed their accounts. This is simply not true. Google keeps multiple backup copies of users' emails so that they can recover messages and restore accounts in case of errors or system failure. (Can you remember what happened when WC melt down?) Even if a message has been deleted or an account is no longer active, messages may remain on their backup systems for some period of time. This is standard practice in the email industry, which Gmail and other major webmail services follow in order to provide a reliable service for users. They will make reasonable efforts to remove deleted information from our systems as quickly as is practical.
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Reply #32 November 8, 2005 1:49:02 PM
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Reply to #30.
Is it called invitation or spaming?
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Reply #33 November 8, 2005 2:14:16 PM
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New feature of G-Mail - Export contacts:

You can quickly export your Gmail Contacts list into a CSV file. Here's how:
  1. Log in to your Gmail account.
  2. Click 'Contacts' along the left side of any Gmail page.
  3. Click 'Export' in the upper-right corner of your Contacts list.
  4. Select the format in which you'd like to export your contacts' information.
    • Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into another Gmail account.
      • This option encodes your CSV file in Unicode/UTF-8.
    • Outlook CSV (for import into Outlook clients, including Outlook Express): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into various versions of Microsoft Outlook.
      • This option encodes your CSV file based on your language preferences, since Outlook doesn't accept Unicode files. When you import your contacts into Outlook, some entries may become garbled if they contain characters that aren't part of your language's character set.

  5. Click 'Export Contacts.'
  6. Select a location to save your file, and click 'OK.'
Depending on the requirements of the program to which you're importing your contacts, you can easily edit the Gmail CSV to fit your needs.

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Reply #34 November 9, 2005 12:00:10 AM
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Legit invites
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Reply #35 November 9, 2005 10:15:05 AM
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Legit invites


But, why so many?
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Reply #36 November 9, 2005 10:36:22 AM
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Gmail is sweet. It has a great, fast interface, a lot of neat features, and a ton of storage space (I keep much of my music collection online so that I can download it from anywhere). The privacy thing is ridiculous. It automatically scans your e-mail to post content sensitive ads. Big deal. Microsoft Word scans your document to display it in readable format.

And yet, they back up their computers, so delete e-mail isn't fully deleted for up to a month. I can live with that. And I'm dang happy they back things up. Anti-gmail people bother me. If you don't want to use the best free service out there, fine. Don't use it.

Dan
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Reply #37 November 9, 2005 10:44:10 AM
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The ignorance/stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.
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Reply #38 November 9, 2005 10:59:26 AM
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The ignorance/stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.





Then...one the other hand...I'm amazing!
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Reply #39 November 10, 2005 10:21:12 AM
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so delete e-mail isn't fully deleted for up to a month




But, why so many?
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Reply #40 November 10, 2005 11:03:52 AM
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Everyone needs Gmail. It has more than 2 gigs of storage, and multiple ways of organizing your messages (stars, labels, dates, and unread). It has a free notifier, and an intelligent spam filter. It says there are ads, but unless you are looking for them, they are unnoticable.
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Reply #41 November 10, 2005 11:35:27 AM
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I own my own e-mail address (not used here), so I can administer it as I see fit. And as far as storage, I have a 30g 5th gen iPod, that's plenty for anything I need to carry with me or access. However, I do have a gmail address, just because I signed up for it a long time ago when the were accepting special requests and you had to wait to be included in the "circle of gMail". Whatever.

In any case, I use my gmail to recieve messages that are high volume such as from professional user groups, association news, and internet association updates... things like that. That way, I can check it whenever I get around to it, and I don't have to worry about it getting shut down because I didn't clean it up. Plus it is anonymous. For professional communication and business transactions, I use my self administered e-mail system. So, I guess you just have to put it in perspective as to what you need for what. Personally, I have my happy medium. Find yours.

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Reply #42 November 10, 2005 12:08:00 PM
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Everyone needs Gmail.


I DON'T...DON'T trust it.....DON'T want it. I dislike advertisers tactics and advertising intensely, and would never willingly get in bed with a company that employs spam and advertising to further it goals.....much less a company that makes its business to know your business.
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Reply #43 November 10, 2005 12:44:49 PM
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I dislike advertisers tactics and advertising intensely, and would never willingly get in bed with a company that employs spam and advertising to further it goals.....much less a company that makes its business to know your business.


POP means no ad. So, POP is for you. So, G-Mail is for you.

Gmail users only see relevant text ads, similar to those on Google search results pages . The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers.

Ads are matched using the technology that powers the Google AdSense program, which already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them.

No loading of external images by default. Many marketing or spam messages include hidden "web bugs" embedded in external images. Typically, when these images are loaded, the web bugs signal that the email address is active, thereby helping companies further perfect their recipient list for marketing or spam messages. Not loading external images helps to prevent this.
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Reply #44 November 10, 2005 4:54:13 PM
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Everyone needs Gmail. It has more than 2 gigs of storage, and multiple ways of organizing your messages


So does my ISP email. And it's much more private. Ad it has no ads.
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Reply #45 November 11, 2005 3:29:10 AM
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POP means no ad. So, POP is for you. So, G-Mail is for you.


No....I have a POP email account through my ISP and am more than satisfied with it, never ever do I see ads, never ever do I get spam or junk mail.
Furthermore, I am guaranteed that once my emails have been downloaded and or deleted, they do not remain on their severs/data banks....an enquiry into an accidentally deleted emailed resulted in: "We no longer have it and cannot provide you a copy." Yes, it means I have to be more careful and make backups, but I'd rather that than have my personal business stored on someone elses machine for months after deletion.

As for the ad insertion being automated (nobody actually reads my mail), I still don't care for the practice of ad placement in correspondence that was never intended to display it.....meaning that senders can and do become unwilling participants in the promotion of something they would otherwise not support. Besides all that, automated systems, no matter how good they are, require some monitoring and human intervention, which to me casts suspicion on the claim that no human eyes ever see your emails. Yes, I am that distrusting, particularly when a company uses stealth and under the radar tactics to penetrate, dominate and control as many nooks and crannies on the internet as it can. Recently, a friend who has Gmail told me that he's sick of seeing ads at the tops and bottoms of his emails...sometimes even between paragraphs, and there's no way on earth I'm ever signing myself up for that.

To me, ads like this are intrusive and an abomination, as are the parasites who proliferate them. If someone intercepts your land mail, it is a criminal offence, punishable by law, as should the interception of emails to place unwelcomed ads be.....unwelcomed being the key word! With countless studies and surveys showing that the majority of people are sick and tired of ads, and therefore shy away to avoid them at all costs, you'd think the ad parasites would get the message...but no, they just find new and more inescapable ways to intrude into as many aspects of our lives as they possibly can.

Yep, I've got one hell of a bee in my bonnet! Advertising is just about everywhere you look: newspapers; magazines; public transport; beside most highways and roads; airports; hotels; most radio and TV stations (even the pay TV I purchased to escape the commercialism).....and I should be able to find sanctuary from it in my personal dealings and correspondence, etc. Furthermore, given the billions and billions of dollars sunk into it, the bulk of advertising is obscene and an insult to ones intelligence! Apart from being inately childish in content, it's too often trying to tell us what we want and need....that some inferior product is a must have item. GRRRRR.
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Reply #46 November 13, 2005 3:42:26 AM
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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.
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Reply #47 November 15, 2005 1:12:17 PM
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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
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Reply #48 November 17, 2005 1:14:47 AM
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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.
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Reply #49 November 17, 2005 3:26:31 AM
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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.
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Reply #50 November 17, 2005 8:34:26 AM
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Apprentice Himangshu  ...your last post mangled the site format.

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

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