Reply #179: Applies to All Hosted Email [View All]

[OhioChick]

not just Gmail. This applies to email environments, including MSN/Hotmail, Yahoo!, AT&T, Verizon, etc., and even your email at work. Unless you have your own domain name, and email server in your home, you cannot expect any level of privacy of your email's content (even with this configuration, in/outbound port 25 traffic could easily be archived at the ISP). RFC-821 defines the Internet standard of the SMTP protocol. Transfers are initiated in clear text.

DU is ad-base, as well as donation driven. It is in a hosted environment. Your PMs remain within the server's back-end database. All modern databases have textual content search-ability.

No, it is not a bad comparison. What does any of this have to do with the USPS? I don't understand your argument.