Dave, and others, If the Gmail bots read all your mail, and insert ads how to you keep the ads and your mail off your system. Are you not using the Gmail to send and read mail? I see that you used a Jamil address to send the message I have placed below. If you do use Gmail to send and\or read mail, how do you keep the bots from reading the mail also and inserting the ads? Just curious. Also I have never had AOL access anything except when I synchronize my local address book with the AOL address book on their server so it is up to date when I go on the road and need to get on the Internet with AOL dial up, or when I run AOL's very good spyware scanner and eliminator, but again I told AOL to install that and I control when it runs and what it deletes. It always finds more spyware then Spybot and Adaware. And when I wanted to cancel an account, even though I was offered a free month or two, when I said I wanted to cancel there never was a problem. You just tell them you want to cancel and you do not free months or anything else. If they ask a reason just say it costs too much or the service is poor or whatever and you do not want the service anymore. The other Dave W. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:47:32 -0400 From: "David J. Weaver" <djweaver@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: GMAIL I access through a stand alone computer isolated from my network. I also block all traffic by default. So when something comes in I have to approve. Any thing that come Thur has to be approved including everytime I retrieve email or go to refresh. So far Google has not tried to access anything. Dave To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk