>>>>I’ve said if before, you have to be nuts to sign-up for a g-mail account
I don’r entirely disagree, but some of us have thought about the implications of using Gmail (and other Google services) and decided that the price (a certain amount of privacy) is worth the tradeoff (access to some useful Google tools such as Gmail).
I love this argument: "oh yeah, I've decided the tradeoff is worth it, for the benefits..."
I mean, the "argument" might almost be valid for as long as it takes you type it if the email service itself didn's completely suck.
But even if it could read your mail for you and your mind for a reply, and shine your shoes, there is no price that is high enough to compensate for the documentation and dissemination of one's most intimate private information, even if it wasn't guaranteed by the laws of history and human nature to be misused.
Disabuse yourself of this sophistry. It's la-la-libertarian speak, and it's in direct denial of reality.