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In Hotmail's early days -- before the Microsoft acquisition -- that email tagline was the VC Tim Draper's idea:

Hotmail started it, Yahoomail (nee RocketMail) quickly followed, and Gmail had a more low-key viral roll-out without any ad footers on messages.

Yep just give everything to the Google machine. What could possibly go wrong?

IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads.

> IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads.

Oh I assumed they still do. Did they stop that practice?

Also I'm not suggesting that giving everything to The Google Machine is a good thing. I was just pointing out the super sleazy gross tactics.

I attach meta-tags about sex with cats to outgoing e-mails, so far none have figured out out, and 37 have been arrested for bestiality...