What was he thinking?
Charles Cooper's article entitled: "Why Gmail gives me the creeps." is shockingly off base for someone in his position. As soon as GMail was announced privacy advocates everywhere began to pen articles about how terrible it is for Google to be "reading" everyone's email.... and why people shouldn't trade their privacy for 1000 MB of free storage.

Here is why Charles and other privacy advocates are so off baseon this one: Simply ask them if they use Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or any other email software where there are spam fighting filters. I would bet the farm that they do, and these filters "read" email in the same way that Google's GMail would "read" mail. I don't recall these same concerns being voiced when spam filters are added in hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or any other application (Outlook 2003).