[geeks] More gmail invites

Brian Dunbar brian.dunbar at plexus.com
Thu Jun 24 07:46:41 CDT 2004


On Jun 24, 2004, at 4:56 AM, bitrot wrote:

> W
>> Tick the checkbox next to the mail[s] you want to delete, click on 
>> the More
>> actions... drop-down menu and then Move to Trash. Then in the Trash 
>> folder a
>> Delete Forever option appears in the More actions... drop-down.
>> Will.
>
> what spooky is after you nuke your trash you get this message...
>
> "Who needs to delete when you have 1000 MB of storage?!"
>
> Its like they want you do keep your crap around so they can
> spy on you and index it. and archive it.
>
>
> shudder..

What I took away from that was a) what you noted and b) serious geeks 
allowed to have fun with their job.  Seems very much in the spirit of 
MOTD, rotating SIGs, 'funny' messages on HP printer LCD displays and so 
forth.

~brian



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