From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 05:28:52 MDT
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Or you have no workable alternative.
I guess this means that for-pay email with superior privacy guidelines has
a market. Oops! For-pay email is but a tiny niche. How come?
Unfortunately, people are unwilling to pay for privacy. Judging from
reactions of end users to Yahoogroups changed privacy statement the
majority of customers regards this either as a minor nuisance, or a
necessary evil.
As long as people are unwilling to pay for a superior product this means
they value their privacy at less than a few US$/month. Engaging guideless
engines of mass regulation seems like a distant overkill. The invisible
hand might be flipping you the bird, but in this case no one gets hurt.
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