Any system that is monitoring the content of my e-mails, whether by 
human or machine, makes me uncomfortable, especially in the current 
context, in which security concerns are prompting government to try to 
increase their access to citizen information without having to inform 
anyone that they are doing so. I also don't really like commercial 
interests gathering information about me, whether they can trace it to 
me directly or not. I know a lot of this goes on already, but I'll avoid 
volunteering where I can.

I don't want to get into a political discussion about this on the list; 
I don't think this one is germane to our mission (though plenty of 
others are--that have an effect on education). I appreciate John's 
clarification of how G-mail works. We can decide on or own whether to 
subscribe or not.

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Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  •  Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone.  756-2596
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http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
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