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    RM> Yes.. I have a gMail address but almost no one has it, and I set it   
    RM> up that anything that comes to me through it is forwarded to another   
    RM> eMail account I have so very little from me ends up there. I'd get   
    RM> nothing if I hadn't set up a few commercial places with my gMail   
    RM> address before I knew any better. But not much information that   
    RM> goes through there would be of any use.. Reminders that a bill is   
    RM> coming due or a thankyou that it's been paid, so they know I pay   
    RM> some common bills but no details are given out in those..   
      
   That's a good point. I'm the same way. I don't use email for anything too   
   important either, but the issue here is the chip on my shoulder about big tech   
   and companies with big names.   
      
   It doesn't seem like a big deal if Google saw (for example) a receipt for my   
   electric bill, but the problem is that they are collectors of information in   
   general, and I'm certain that they use it to do things that will irk me one   
   way or another. Maybe they'll use it to make sales, or they're selling it to   
   China, or using it to make racial statistics, or to plan an attack on a   
   certain demographic. They definitely aren't using the information they gather   
   to do God's work.   
      
    RM> I also don't use Google to search for things online.   
      
   Despite everything I just said, I do use Google to search for most things, but   
   there's no other search engine that I trust any further than I trust Google.   
      
    RM> That said, virtually all eMail providers check eMails for known   
    RM> content often used by Spammers. I get the odd eMail dumped in a   
    RM> Spam folder, one or two a month, with a notice that it's there in   
    RM> case I know what it is and want to see it.. And I don't remember   
    RM> the last time something that landed there was actually Spam, it   
    RM> just used language/terms that looked suspect..   
      
   Spam is an issue, but I suspect that Google and the other sleazeballs use the   
   spam issue as justification for things like: the power to tell small, private   
   email servers "Your email server is not permitted to communicate with ours   
   because we don't trust you." (This keeps them elevated and it keeps the little   
   guys down.)   
      
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