[WEB4LIB] Re: Yahoo Mail adds storage

[Thomas Dowling]

Jennifer Heise wrote:

>Ok, everyone-- time to start whining about how Yahoo (a proven email 
>address reseller) is going to be harvesting your 100 mb of mail for 
>profiling.... ?
>
>  
>

While messages in Yahoo mail obviously live on their servers and are 
accessible to them, their day to day operation does not involve scanning 
the content of your received messages to profile you for targeted 
advertising.  That's the part of gmail that I find just a little ishy.

-- 
Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu