Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:55:13 -0600 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> Cc: RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: What are good mail hosts to use with FreeBSD mailing lists? Message-ID: <1F27D6D7-3478-4750-B151-9BA03CFECECB@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20210210235831.765254e2.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> References: <PH0PR01MB6523127AB2337C5F2DA87EADD4B19@PH0PR01MB6523.prod.exchangelabs.com> <25de0d19-1bb6-610f-c0cb-ef7721086902@panix.com> <24606.3187.85211.65015@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <587ffb90-4041-7e96-f9f7-0f0ff8827587@yuripv.dev> <f60188f7-db62-c6c6-3717-855202a18e12@panix.com> <B71E31B7-FE3C-4A26-A461-3CC286905AE3@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20210209145843.079389a3@gumby.homeunix.com> <8b80d4a7-3fd3-b032-6d19-a940b3e736c4@panix.com> <20210210170247.52853d16@gumby.homeunix.com> <20210210235831.765254e2.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
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> On Feb 10, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Erich Dollansky = <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:02:47 +0000 > RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:30:24 -0500 >> Kurt Hackenberg wrote: >>=20 >>> On 2/9/21 9:58 AM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >>>=20 >>>> I only use this gmail account for mailing list and only with a=20 >>>> traditional MUA. I don't see any ads or give them anything that=20 >>>> isn't already public. =20 >>>=20 >>> Google knows who you are across your use of all their services, by=20= >>> identifying your computer(s). A separate Gmail account won't hide >>> you from that. >>>=20 >>> For example, your use of Gmail for this list will affect what >>> videos Youtube suggests to you. =20 >>=20 >> I've never seen any evidence of that. I only get suggestions that >> are similar to videos I watched.=20 >=20 > we work in a very specific field. When work-related e-mails land at = our > privat Google account, we get then links to paradise islands in the > tropics. This takes a few weeks until a work-related e-mail arrives > there again. >>=20 >> I doubt google knows much about me, or their choice of adverts >> wouldn't be so laughable. Two years I spent a couple of minutes on >> their search engine (instead of DuckDuckGo) looking at garden >> shredders and got ads that were dominated by shredders for months. >> This is a minor improvement over ~15 years ago when I typed in "KDE >> packages fruit salad servers" and got several years worth of >> soft-fruit ads - mostly raspberries. =20 >=20 > Yes, they react much faster these days. These nuisances you can and do observe are quite benign compared to = those you can=E2=80=99t observe (and don=E2=80=99t care to imagine ;-) Valeri > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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