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Re: google reads your mail

From	john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: google reads your mail
Date	2026-09-20 08:50 -0700
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:48:49 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>On 9/20/2026 5:33 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2026-09-13 17:51, Edward Rawde wrote:
>
>>> Those of us who don't always want our correspondence read
>>> will find other ways to communicate.
>> 
>> Gmail conditions at the start specified that mail would be machine read.
>
>A good mantra is "never to put something in an email that you wouldn't
>want others to see".
>
>In addition to the "unprotected in transport" issue, there is
>also the possibility that you send it to the wrong party (oops!).
>Or, that a recipient forwards it without pruning "private"
>details.  Or, that a recipient copies someone else in their
>reply to you.
>
>[Disciplining yourself to use different email addresses for different
>purposes is a first order solution]
>
>OTOH, it is an excellent way to document conversations!
>
>I shut down my business phone early on as I got tired of clients
>"selectively remembering" PARTS of conversations, taken out of
>context.  Having to MANUALLY document those discussions and
>then confront them over their "memory lapses" was tedious;
>easier to just forward a saved copy of that portion of the
>EMAIL conversation, without comment.
>
>It's also great for its support of attachments; much easier
>to SHOW someone what you are talking about (photo, bit of
>code, schematic, animation) than to have to HOPE they understand
>a description in prose.

Email is great. It gives one time to think before sending, and
archives searchable records of who said what when.

But I think some young things don't use email much any more. They use
slack, texting, linkedin, zoom, social media things, stuff like that.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-12 08:02 -0700
  Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-12 11:20 -0400
    Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-12 09:18 -0700
      Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-12 09:21 -0700
        Re: google reads your mail TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2026-09-12 17:41 +0100
      Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-13 02:36 +1000
        Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-12 12:46 -0700
          Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-13 15:41 +1000
      Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-12 12:57 -0400
        Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-12 23:53 -0700
      Re: google reads your mail liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-09-13 14:28 +0100
        Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-13 07:58 -0600
          Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-13 13:15 -0700
        Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-13 11:48 -0400
        Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-13 13:05 -0700
          Re: google reads your mail liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-09-14 09:19 +0100
            Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-14 02:24 -0700
              Re: google reads your mail antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-09-14 15:08 +0000
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-14 08:31 -0700
        Re: google reads your mail "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-13 22:55 +0200
        Re: google reads your mail antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-09-14 00:37 +0000
  Re: [. . .] reads your mail Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-09-12 18:12 +0000
    Re: [. . .] reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-12 23:34 -0400
      Re: [. . .] reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-13 13:21 -0700
  Re: google reads your mail chrisq <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> - 2026-09-12 19:35 +0100
    Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-12 12:52 -0700
      Re: google reads your mail chrisq <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> - 2026-09-13 12:21 +0100
        Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-13 07:27 -0600
        Re: google reads your mail Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-09-13 15:16 +0000
    Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-13 15:48 +1000
      Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-13 02:20 -0400
        Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-12 23:55 -0700
          Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-13 11:51 -0400
            Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-13 12:58 -0700
              Re: google reads your mail "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-13 17:41 -0400
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-13 20:48 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-14 15:42 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-14 01:18 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-15 22:34 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-16 21:37 +1000
                Re: google reads your mail Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-16 21:08 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-16 23:57 +1000
                Re: google reads your mail "Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-16 23:39 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 16:51 +1000
                Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-17 02:43 -0600
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 23:34 +1000
                Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-17 08:43 -0600
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-18 15:36 +1000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:04 +0000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 02:25 +1000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-19 22:03 +0000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 16:13 +1000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-20 08:09 +0000
                Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 18:25 +1000
            Re: google reads your mail "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-20 14:33 +0200
              Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-20 05:48 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-20 08:50 -0700
  Re: google reads your mail Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-14 03:03 +0800
  Re: google reads your mail someone <2a59d59e3809f827ce709d3815e3950eef4a6a93af5557a93a7fdfba71460843@example.com> - 2026-09-16 14:00 +0000
    Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 02:02 +1000
      Re: google reads your mail Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2026-09-16 20:24 -0700
        Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 17:03 +1000
          Re: google reads your mail Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2026-09-17 11:01 -0700
            Re: google reads your mail "Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-18 03:42 +0800
              Re: google reads your mail Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2026-09-17 20:39 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail "Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:25 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-18 08:54 -0600
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-18 08:36 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-18 09:44 -0600
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-18 08:59 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-18 10:04 -0600
                Re: google reads your mail Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-09-18 09:39 -0700
                Re: google reads your mail chrisq <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> - 2026-09-18 18:27 +0100
                Re: google reads your mail "Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-19 00:17 +0800
                Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 02:36 +1000
        Re: google reads your mail john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-17 07:51 -0700

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