Bob,
Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your
exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant
advertising.

Zone,
From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to
date no trawler has scooped it up.

Regards,
Peter T


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said.
No
thanks!

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Zone" wrote in message
oups.com...
I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still
has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature,
since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing
files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup.
Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my
e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post
our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their
e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to
e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement.
Any comments? James